Klarinet Archive - Posting 000054.txt from 1997/03

From: "David C. Blumberg" <reedman@-----.COM>
Subj: E Bee Clarinet
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 19:05:05 -0500

I got that response form a Major Orchestra personel employee who was
reading off the Rep. list. Duh..........

At 02:06 PM 3/2/97 -0700, Jacqueline Eastwood wrote:
>On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Sherri wrote:
>
>> My favorite is:
>>
>> "What's a Bb ( pronouced Bee bee) Clarinet?"
>>
>> ===================================================================
>> -Sherri mailto:sheba@-----.net/~sheba
>
>Don't laugh too soon -- this was the response from the Interlibrary Loan
>office supervisor when she got my requests for materials. Assuming
>(stupidly, I now realize) that the people who would see my requests would
>be MUSIC librarians, I had used the standard abbreviations for instruments
>in my requests, in order to save myself from writer's cramp. So I had
>asked for, for example, a particular trio for "Eb/Bb/bass cl." and she
>wanted to know what an "eee bee bee bee bass clarinet" was. At least she
>figured out the clarinet part.
>
>I rapidly discovered that Interlibrary Loan is not the greatest way to
>obtain sheet music for research. The people who run the program here are
>not trained as music librarians (even though we have one) and consequently
>a lot of my requests were screwed up. I ended up doing most of the
>searching FOR them.
>
>I'll stop whining now. Happy Sunday afternoon!
>
>
>Jacqueline Eastwood
>University of Arizona/Arizona Opera Orchestra
>eastwooj@-----.edu
>
>
David C. Blumberg
Principal Clarinet Riverside Symphonia
reedman@-----.com