Klarinet Archive - Posting 000030.txt from 1996/05

From: Ken Cook <kcook@-----.US>
Subj: Re: Clarinets and Innocence Again (:-))
Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 10:17:35 -0400

Grainne Ann Round wrote:

> 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!
>
>

To begin with, I can appreciate humor. I have reams of instrument
jokes, many of which are directed at my own instrument - the
saxophone. ( You knew someone would respond like this, didn't you?)

For myself, who knows and has come to appreciate the beauty of sound
that CAN be produced with a saxophone - and if the message above was
serious ( see the word "true!") - then allow me the privilege of
voicing my own opinion.

The above message - once again if intended as fact - is beyond
stupidity.

Profuse apologies if I missed the joke! I really hate it when
people, including myself, take themselves and their instrument of
choice too seriously.

Ken Cook
kcook@-----.us

   
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