Klarinet Archive - Posting 000787.txt from 1996/03

From: Lisa Clayton <clayton@-----.EDU>
Subj: On clarinet and sexuality
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 12:34:32 -0500

> [Holy cow...do we have a brand new thread in the making??]
>
> Hear hear Dan! And all this time I thought I was some isolated pervert for
> feeling the same sense of literal passion about playing and hearing the
> clarinet. If there is some inanimate-object form of bestiality, that is
> NOT what I'm talking about here. :-) Honestly, though, when completely
> drawn into the music and the performance event, I sometimes experience
> emotions, and even physical "trembling" sensations, akin to sex. It has
> something to do with the the total involvement of all of one's senses, I
> think, when one is so involved in the act of creating music through one's
> instrument that the music is literally the only area of reality which
> exists at that moment in time. Woo woo! Take it off Dan!
>
> Neil

That confirms it. There *IS* nothing more onanistic than playing the
bass clarinet by yourself. And here I thought Mr. Trier and myself were
the only ones.

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"There is nothing more onanistic than playing the bass clarinet by yourself"
-Steve Trier