Klarinet Archive - Posting 000160.txt from 1994/02

From: Jordan Selburn <jselburn@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Students where are you???
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 13:16:13 -0500

Anne Vacca writes:
>
> Besides, where else can you talk to so many professional clarinet
>players!!!
>

No question, this mailing list is a great resource, with a number of highly
intelligent and well informed clarinetists. It's hard to imagine any
question going unanswered (sometimes, like in the vibrato case, the answers
keep coming and coming and coming and . . .).

BUT . . .

I suspect that there are actually very few professional clarinetists on the
list. By that I mean people who make their living
playing/teaching/repairing/etc. clarinet. Sure, there's Dan Leeson, Ron
Monson, Robert Spring (and Cary Karp???) and some I've missed, but most of
us probably fall into the amateur/semi-pro camp. The kind of person who
doesn't object if someone slips a check into his/her pocket but enjoys
playing enough that we'll do it for free. Not that that implies that we
don't have much worthwhile to contribute - witness the recent messages by
Jay Heiser, Joshua Proschan, Tom Ascher (and if any of you are pros, I
apologize), and many, many others. Amateur in it's strictist sense means
nothing more or less than that we love playing.

Also, by definition anyone on this list has access to a computer, knows how
to use it and is therefore either at a university or a techno-weinie (or
both). That will probably continue to mean lots of us amateurs haunting
the list.

Jordan