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Playing, Performing, Entertaining
Terry Stibal penned this in 2011 in the Woodwind Forum. He has now passed on, but his writings live on. This is a pet peeve of mine. I know a lot of folks who can do the first, significantly fewer … Continue reading
Romero System Sax and Clarinet, in a Nutshell
Taken from the Woodwind forum mostly because a now deceased friend of mine said he would write this article for me. Instead Pete, one of the admins on the Woodwind forum did. A few days ago, I came across a … Continue reading
Posted in Clarinet, Hobbies, Music Instruments, Saxophone
Tagged Romero System, Woodwind Forum
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The Mysterious Mazzeo “System” Explained
Here’s another fine post wherein from my friend Terry Stibal waxes poetic about a very unique clarinet system. He is a professional musician and band manager with his latest band, the Sounds of the South Dance Orchestra. This was first … Continue reading
Posted in Clarinet, FAQ, Guides, Music Instruments, Vintage, Woodwind Forum
Tagged Mazzeo, SOTSDO, Sounds of the South Dance Orchestra, Terry Stibal
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Big Band: Can the Clutter!
Further guidance from my friend Terry Stibal, a professional musician and band manager with his latest band, the Sounds of the South Dance Orchestra. CAN THE CLUTTER!!! We had a video made of our group once, something that I have … Continue reading
Posted in advice, Band, Band Management, Big Band, Culture, Dancing, Entertainment, Female vocalists, Guides, Jazz, Music, Vocalist
Tagged Benny Goodman, Chattanooga Choo-choo, glenn miller, Monkees, Tommy Dorsey, Woody Herman
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Big Bands ~ Excellence by Design
After posting yesterday’s missive providing my rather rudimentary observations about managing a Big Band, my friend Terry Stibal, a professional musician and band manager for most of his life provided this much more thorough guidance. Here’s a picture of his … Continue reading
Full Boehm Clarinet in a modern world
Terry Stibal in 2006 reviews your full Boehm clarinet options. For many years, Selmer offered the complete line of clarinets, as did Heckel, Leblanc and Buffet. However, that has changed and now you are quite limited as to extra keywork. … Continue reading
Posted in Band, Clarinet, Education, Music Instruments, Vintage
Tagged Buffet, full boehm, leblanc, selmer, yamaha
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Albert System Clarinet, in a nutshell
Terry Stibal, an accomplished musician and historian, regales us at the Woodwind Forum with yet another synopsis from the musical world. The pictures are from the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments. A long time ago, there was this … Continue reading
Posted in Clarinet, Collectable, Music Instruments, Vintage
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The Doubler’s Forum talks about instrumentation
Another keeper from Terry Stibal on the topic of cutting parts from theater show music: I would disagree with choosing the baritone as being the saxophone to eliminate. Instead, I would opt for the tenor. The reasoning goes something like … Continue reading
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Terry Talks about the “full Boehm” Clarinet
There seems to be some misunderstanding here about the purpose of the “full Boehm” clarinet. It has two distinct aspects that it covers: 1) The low Eb key allows for the performance of A clarinet parts on a Bb clarinet. … Continue reading
The Bis Key Chronicles 