Brass Trombone question.

[turf3]

It's easy for me; all my orchestra experience has been on flute or double-bass.

 

[Pete Effamy]

My question, however, is whether the PART is transposed for the A clarinet. So if the piece is in the key of F, the Bb clarinet part would be written in G. Would an A clarinet part be written in G#/Ab, or would it be written in G and the player expected to add the half step?

No. You play /finger what you see.

 

[Pete Effamy]

So if the piece is in F, where a Bb trumpet part would be written in G, a D trumpet part would be written in Eb? Yes, or no?

That, I can’t speak from 100% knowledge.

 

[Pete Effamy]

It's easy for me; all my orchestra experience has been on flute or double-bass.

So for Bb, A and Eb clarinets you have a transposed part. C too (Beethoven) but nobody uses a C clarinet so you transpose.

 

[Pete Effamy]

It's easy for me; all my orchestra experience has been on flute or double-bass.

My flute playing sounds like someone who can’t play the panpipes.

 

[turf3]

My flute playing sounds like someone who can’t play the panpipes.

After that car accident where my upper lip got damaged, my flute embouchure's never been the same. You'd never notice just talking to me, but I can't form a correctly shaped aperture any more. No effect whatsoever on saxophone playing. But the flute tone has a hairy airy noise to it that I can't take out like I could before.

I didn't want to be an orchestral flutist all that much, anyway.

 

[Pete Effamy]

Forgot to mention, Italian players traditionally transposed parts for the A clarinet onto Bb as they used a Boehm system with low Eb, covering the low E written for A clarinet parts.

 

[Pete Effamy]

After that car accident where my upper lip got damaged, my flute embouchure's never been the same. You'd never notice just talking to me, but I can't form a correctly shaped aperture any more. No effect whatsoever on saxophone playing. But the flute tone has a hairy airy noise to it that I can't take out like I could before.

I didn't want to be an orchestral flutist all that much, anyway.

Interestingly I think that the classical sound of a flute is transferable almost completely to a valid jazz sound (unlike any other instrument I can think of) - think Dave Valentine.

 

[turf3]

Interestingly I think that the classical sound of a flute is transferable almost completely to a valid jazz sound (unlike any other instrument I can think of) - think Dave Valentine.

Yes, but most jazz players don't do that. Most jazz players put a LOT of hair on the sound. Hubert Laws is another one that usually played with a straight tone.

 

[Pete Effamy]

Yes, but most jazz players don't do that. Most jazz players put a LOT of hair on the sound. Hubert Laws is another one that usually played with a straight tone.

Yes agreed. And it sounds great too. Just interesting how both work perfectly well, to my taste anyway; while a classical sax sound in jazz would be horrible (again, imo).