Klarinet Archive - Posting 000344.txt from 1996/10

From: Starr Schaftel Wayne <starrs@-----.NET>
Subj: Re: vandoren!
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 12:58:38 -0400

Everett Austin wrote:
>
> On the subject of Vandoren visits in Paris, I remembered and anecdote
> that Pamela Weston recounts in the chapter on Stanley Drucher in one of
> her books. Mr Drucker is said to have visited the Vandoren shop rue
> Lepic in Paris and asked to see the person who put the one good reed in
> each box. Evidently they were not amused...
>
> Everett Austin

That is a great and depressing story. Yet, I know it to be true.
Thanks.

Starr Schaftel Wayne