Rachel TheClarinetist
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What is your favourite instrument?
Mine is the clarinet, followed closely by the violin, viola and cello.
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12/24/2004, 6:54 pm
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 Re: What is your favourite instrument?
A more precise order of my liking is this:
viola/bassoon ( a tie! )
cor anglais
heckelphone/oboe ( another )
violoncello
horn/oboe d'amore ( tie again )
trumpet
basset horn
violin
taragoto
alto saxophone
bass clarinet
alto trombone
Eb clarinet
tenor trombone
Bb and A clarinets ( can you tell the difference? )
double bass
alto flute
euphonium
side drums
past that I like instruments, but not in any particular order...
Instruments I hate:
Any saxophone played badly
Triangle
Glockenspiel ( the celesta is nice; the glockenspiel is twee )
Piccolo ( it Really hurts my ears )
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1/9/2005, 6:56 pm
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Rachel TheClarinetist
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Re: What is your favourite instrument?
What is a taragato? I'm sure I've heard of it but I can't remember what it is.
I can usually tell the difference between the A and Bb clarinets. The A is darker and more "floating", to my ear.
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1/10/2005, 12:59 pm
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Re: What is your favourite instrument?
I've never been close enough to really compare the two ( i.e. I haven't heard one after another so I can't really compare ).
A taragoto is kind of like a narow-bore wooden soprano saxophone ( it uses a single reed ). Also the mouthpeice is different, but I'm not a clarinetist so I can't say exactly how.
The end result is that it has a very dark sound, kind of like a bassoon and clarinet mixed in together.
I'll dig up a sound sample in a moment.
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Re: What is your favourite instrument?
Here you go, three different samples of taragoto music:
http://www.nbucknall.co.uk/music2.html
Also ( in very questionable taste ) chicken run on basset clarinet!
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1/10/2005, 2:10 pm
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Re: What is your favourite instrument?
I had to go for viola - so esonant and vesatile. But I love oboes (especially the lowe ones. Oboe d'amore's good too) and low harmony clarinets, and the big flutes, and euph, and cello, and violin. Sax can sound lovely when played well, and I'm quite into timpani at the moment. Just to clarify - the above instuments were in no particular orde, and I should have included bassoons there. Although harmony instuments tend to come above their egular counterparts, I must say.
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Re: What is your favourite instrument?
English horn. I LOOOVE English horn
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9/4/2005, 12:38 pm
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I can't stand the basset horn 
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Never heard it myself!
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