Klarinet Archive - Posting 000028.txt from 1996/05

From: Grainne Ann Round <G.ROUND%kcl.ac.uk@-----.BITNET>
Subj: Clarinets and Innocence Again (:-))
Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 07:37:35 -0400

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alt.music.clarinet #37 (41 more)
From: froggy@-----.com (Carlos May)
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Jeff Gerstmann (jeffg@-----.com) wrote:

: ...I played the clarinet in elementary school. Then I realized
: that playing it made me appear wimpy and ineffectual, so I got a
: saxophone.

Heh. So you missed the experience of having beautiful women chasing
after you all your life from your teens to your 70s like Harry Sheilds
or Alphonse Picou...
"Heh heh! All the girls crazy over clarinet blowers!" -- Picou

: Take THAT, you CLARINET playing HORKMONKIES!

You gave it up to take up SAXOPHONE!?!? Sheesh, the saxophone isn't
even a real musical instrument!

The eccentric 19th century Alasian Aldolphe Antonine Sax developed
a quack treatment for tuburculosis. It consisted of menthol and
laudnum at the bottom of a curved pipe, which sufferers were supposed
to breathe in for 2 hours a day. Of course, most people got impatient
with that. So M. Sax added a simple reed mouthpiece and some keys to
the tube, so that patients could play simple melodies while breathing
into the device.
Sax later got the idea to market the contraption as a novelty instrument.
He died in an insane asylum.

True!

Take THAT, you SAX-OFFENDER!

-- Froggy

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