Klarinet Archive - Posting 000130.txt from 1994/12
From: Josias Associates <josassoc@-----.COM> Subj: Re: C Clarinet (Jay's pet peeve) Date: Fri, 9 Dec 1994 02:24:36 -0500
On Thu, 8 Dec 1994, Timothy Tikker wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Dec 1994, Christopher Zello wrote:
>
> > Stan Can on the Tonight Show must have picked his idea of a
> > moveable keyboard/organ from Irving Berlin who could only play
> > in the key of something like F# major. His piano had a
> > gearshift like mechanism to allow him to play in any key.
>
> I think it was D-flat major.
>
My recollection matches up with Chris's, namely F# major. For
some reason, when he taught himself to play, he used all the black keys
and never broke the habit.
Connie
Conrad Josias
La Canada, California
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