Re: Valves/Windsaversand serious music

["Richard Rittenhouse" <rittenr@xxxxxx>]

In Message Wed, 22 Mar 1995 17:41:52 -0600 (CST),
  Hugh Messenger <hugh@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:


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>Seconded to the n'th degree.  Valves on diatonics are, to my mind, a way of working around a lack of technique.  We all talk about overblowing as something Godlike and hard to achieve, but it's just a matter of practise.
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>Hell, it took me 6 years to get to orchestral performance standard on the flute, and that was practicing 4 hours a day.  I'm now a year in to being a keyboard player, and I know it's going to take me another five years to learn that.
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>It's taken me about two years to get conversant with overblows and overdraws, and I'm still missing a couple of notes.  Give me another two years and I'll have the full 3 octaves, with all notes in "polished and pleasant sounding form".
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>Mike might say "well if you used valves you could do it without all that time and effort", but to be honest I just plain don't like the tone of valved diatonics, and I don't like the whole mess of restrictions it places on the rest of my technique.
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>As a last point, it wasn't Susuki's inovation.  Many diatonic players have been adding valves to their instruments for years before Susuki "invented" the idea.
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>   -- hugh

I don't mean to nitpick, but Please, don't make your lines so long. THey are
cumbersome to read when they exceed 76 characters per line.
Thanks,
Rich.