Klarinet Archive - Posting 000471.txt from 1996/04

From: Neil Leupold <nleupold@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: hoo-ha about announcements
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 20:51:04 -0400

Bruce Hudson said there are 400+ members on Klarinet. If I remember
correctly, Dan conducted some kind of query and came up with a worldwide
number in the 600+ range. I actually don't mind the postings about the
festivals, the instruments for sale, etc. I only wish I could GO to some
of those festivals and things.

Neil

On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, B HUDSON wrote:

> Steve,
>
> I don't know exactly who "I'm speaking" is (my system didn't capture his or
> her tag, and he or she didn't sign the message, but now I think you've got
> to take a poll. I for one know of a pair of $10,000 clarinets that were
> sold over the list. And I certainly did all I could to support the recent
> ClarinetFest at UNC. Maybe "I'm's" on the faculty somewhere where a flood
> of such brochures cross his or her desk as spring arrives. However with
> 400 plus members to the list, I'm betting the vast majority have no access
> to such brochures, and although I think I've enjoyed your posts for as long
> as I've been on the List-- hence no special experiential qualifications on
> my part-- I still say there's no prescient for encouraging you not to post
> the info. In fact, although I've enjoyed it very much, I'll bet there are
> as many members who would gain from such information as there are those who
> worry over the sacredness of a particular reading of the Mozart concerto.
>
> Post away, I say:
>
>
> Bruce Hudson, xdpw41a@-----.com
>
> Raleigh, NC
>
>
>
> >I'm speaking now. No thanks, don'
> >t we get enough?
>
> >On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, Steve Prescott wrote:
>
> >> To all:
> >>
> >> Before I make a listserve error, would anyone object if I listed the
> >> dates for a summer band camp for high school students at which I'm
> L>
> >> teaching clarinet and 2 repair seminars I'm conducting (also for the
> >> summer)?
> >>
> >> Speak now or forever hold your peace.
> >>
> >>
> >> Steve.
> >> Steve Prescott
> >> Instrument Rep.Tech./Clarinetist
> >> Indiana State University
> >> mipresc@-----.edu
> >>
>