In the pops orchestra project I'm currently working on, there's a piece I'm arranging where I'd like to use a lot of low wind instruments. I mean, a lot. The winds are 3/3/3/3. If I could get away with it, I would probably want three contrabassoons and three contrabass clarinets. Or maybe a contrabass clarinet, a contra-alto clarinet, and a bass clarinet. (Don't ask why, it's just right for this particular piece.) Yeah, I know this is almost certainly not a realistic request for this sort of situation.
But what would be a reasonable request? I know that (for instance) it says right in the timpanist's contract that he plays *only* timpani, and cannot be asked to play any other percussion instruments. I am told this is usual. So is it usual for the first (and second of three?) bassoonist(s), and/or the first (and second of three?) clarinetist(s) to have written into their contracts that they can't be forced to play the low winds?
I can, of course, ask the contractor about this (and I will), but I don't want to bother asking for something totally impossible. What about this: 2 bass clarinets/1 contrabass clarinet/1 bassoon/2 contrabassons? Still ridiculous/unreasonable?
- Darcy
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