Klarinet Archive - Posting 000352.txt from 1995/07

From: Fred Cicetti <cicetti@-----.COM>
Subj: The effeminate clarinet
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 10:51:30 -0400

John Gardner writes that he believes his son started playing sax instead
of clarinet because the sax is "more manly".

WOW!

I would have thought that this comment would have started an avalanche of
opinions on this list.

Is the sax "more manly"? Well, it does have a deeper voice. And a bari
really hangs low. But, the real question is whether there is a higher
percentage of females playing the clarinet than the sax. My personal
observation is that this is true.

What does this mean?

I'm a writer by trade and I once wrote a piece about harps and harpists.
Turns out that 90 percent of harpists are women. Of the remaining 10
percent, the majority are gay. Several harpists told me that women are
attracted to the harp because it is massive and that is embraced by the
entire body as in an act of love. (I couldn't make that up.)

The whole subject of instruments and their possible sexual overtones is
intriguing to me. Am I alone?

fred cicetti

   
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