Klarinet Archive - Posting 000004.txt from 1995/08

From: "R. J. Shilcock" <mlfl@-----.UK>
Subj: Re: The effeminate clarinet
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 03:55:28 -0400

Tom I. et al.:
>From personal observation, if (sometimes VERY) young girls play anything in a
British-style brass band, it's most likley to be the tenor horn (alto horn in
the U.S., i.e., the little one in E flat). It is alleged to take hardly any
breath. There seems to be a fair number of young female trumpeters and
cornetists about these days, though.
There is a quite horrible tendency over here for the flute to be taken up by
tall, blonde, willowy girls who sway about - I suppose this arises from some
narcissistic aesthetic consideration or other ...
Roger Shilcock