Re: clarinet

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Margotlev (at) aol(dot)com wrote:

> Saxophone is way harder to play than clarinet!
>   actually which ever instrument you pick up second is going to be harder
> than whichever you get used to playing first.  Sax is harder because it takes
> more air to play it and it's harder to control the pitch.
>
> I don't know why sax became more popular during the bebop era except possibly
> because it's louder.

To be sure.  But the instrument owe's its popularity to a line of virtuosos
whose playing
endeared and embedded itself into popular tastes and sensibilities:
Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Gerry Mulligan --
to name one branch.

Wolf

>
> Margot
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