Klarinet Archive - Posting 000183.txt from 1995/07

From: SCOTT MCCHESNEY <scmcchesney@-----.NET>
Subj: Re: something trivial
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 11:58:40 -0400

>> I hate to waste your time, but has anyone else noticed that the clarinetist
>> on the ClarinetFest T-shirt is playing with the wrong hand on top? It has
>> been bugging me for days. Am I imagining this?
>>
>
>Nichelle,
>
>I haven't seen that shirt, but I have a T-shirt that a friend brought me
>about five years ago from a jazz festival. Across the chest there is a
>long row of clarinets (no hands, no people, just clarinets) in multiple
>bright colors. I had worn it for several months (with intermittent
>washings, of course) before I happened to notice (while looking in a
>mirror) that the clarinet keys were reversed. (The surprise was that they
>looked *correct* in the mirror.) It was then that I realized that the
>T-shirt transfer had been applied without reversing the image first.
>That's probably what happened with your shirt.

Well, while we're on the subject:

A while back, a local music store made a TV commercial about renting
their instruments for beginning students. They brought in several button-cute
youngsters and had them all do the barely-credible job of faking playing the
instruments while the voice-over happily babbled away about rates and such.
In any event, they had a clarinet in the ad, and when I saw the little
boy playing it, I immediately lost all respect for the store. He had both
hands on the lower joint - the left hand on the rings and the right hand on the
pinky stack. Either no one in the store was consulted or else they didn't
care when they saw it; it was too obvious to miss. Out of all the instruments
they used, the clarinet was the only one that was displayed being used wrong.
Since that was the only ad they made for end-of-summer rental, it ran
for quite a while. I wonder how many people consciously decided to go
somewhere else...

-- Scott