Klarinet Archive - Posting 000210.txt from 1995/07

From: "Anne M. Schnack" <sam@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: something trivial
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 16:40:16 -0400

>
> 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
>
Hey Scott....
That wouldn't have Grigg's, by chance, would it? :)

Anne