Klarinet Archive - Posting 000301.txt from 1997/01

From: "Michael D. Moors" <mdmoors@-----.US>
Subj: Re: A point to ponder for Jennifer and others
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 10:47:24 -0500

I learned to play clarinet because so many females played it!!!

Mike Moors

At 11:11 AM 1/21/97 +0000, you wrote:
>> I have a few
>> questions, actually. Is it just me, or are a majority of you males? Is
>> there a reason why a lot of the clarinet players are males? (I'm not sexist
>> at all, I'm just curious!)
>
>when i was first starting an instrument, i wanted to play the trombone.
>my parents said "that's no instrument for a young lady!" and chose the
>clarinet for me. as a result, it took me years to learn to love it,
>though i do now, of course.
>
>so at least in Ohio in the 1950's, there was a perception that clarinet
>was a girls' instrument.
>
>

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