A Glockenspiel was used in Mozart's Die Zauberflote. But I'm sure Mozart
was looking forward and knew it would be just a BAND instrument. Last
time I saw the San Francisco Symphony they had a Harp but no saxophones.
Funny.......according to you they use them......not! One of the ladies I
play with in a local symphony has a son in the National Symphony
Orchestra, and they, once in a blue moon, will have saxophones for a
piece. More of a band piece than an Orchestra piece. But what does he
know. He's only been in the Orchestra for, oh, almost 20 years........
But yeah, you seem to know everything. Yeah.........mmhmm.......
Saxophone is a band instrument. Or a Wind ensemble instrument. It's not
a part of a traditional Orchestra, and I believe that is what GPO was
aiming for. Perhaps there should have been a Garritan Personal Band
instead of Garritan Personal Orchestra?
dhbailey wrote:
Do you mean to tell me that every instrument included in GPO is a
regular member of a standard orchestra? I don't think so.
Most orchestras do no have a regular contrabassoon player, a regular
english horn player, a bass clarinet player, tuba player, harpsichord,
marimba, glockenspiel (oh yeah, baby, that's in all those Mozart and
Haydn and Beethoven symphonies!), to say nothing about harp -- every
orchestra uses at least one of those at every concert -- Not!
There are lots of instruments in GPO which are either doubled
occasionally (such as english horn or contrabassoon or bass clarinet,
which is the same as happens with saxophone (I have a friend who plays
clarinet predominantly who doubles on saxophone when it's called for
or for which orchestras maintain lists of first call players to hire
as additional members when the score calls for it, such as tuba,
harpsichord, marimba, glockenspiel, harp.
Your logic falls apart -- the exclusion of saxophones isn't for the
reason that they're not regular members of an orchestra, not if all
those other instruments I've listed are included in GPO. The saxes
may be missing because they weren't ready in time, they may be missing
because Gary simply felt like it wasn't important to include them (why
include glockenspiel, though? That's a band instrument if ever I've
seen one), but the fact is that they are missing and anybody who
wishes to score a work which uses strings AND saxophones and who
wishes to use GPO (either the Finale edition or the full version) has
to buy two separate products.
And that is a fact whether Gary Garritan is a wonderful person (I have
no reason to doubt Chuck's assessment) or is a toad (I have no reason
to think this).
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