I finally did it. I ordered my 16-track recorder last friday and it’s due here on thursday. You can see the one I ordered here. (I didn’t buy it from Zzounds, but they have a decent photo.)
So, the Iapetus Project is on the launch pad. For the past few days, I’ve been looking for a public domain song to try it out. I finally settled on Hark! The Hereld Angels Sing for reasons having more to do with the chords I can currently play on guitar than fondness for the song.
About an hour ago, I transposed the melody for Bb instruments and pulled my clarinet out of the closet. Augh! It sounded awful. No, I sounded awful. Of course, I’ve probably spent a total of about 30 minutes with the instrument over the past five years. I can blame part of it on the reed, but not all of it.
The song is in the key of G, which puts it into the key of A for clarinet. At first, I couldn’t remember the fingerings for the A scale, but it came back after thirty seconds of trial and error.
I did manage to get the clarinet and guitar in tune with each other, but I think my clarinet tone needs a bit of practice.
As a side note, I pounded out a holiday flash story last night in one sitting.