Klarinet Archive - Posting 000698.txt from 1997/05

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: All this stuff about asking where to buy things, etc.....
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 09:51:37 -0400

I didn't mean to be as harsh as has apparently been assumed. If players
live well away from major population centres. then they need a bit of
help with access to resources. They also need more initiative,
maybe. This may well be more of a problem over here, in a way, since
useful instrument shops are distributed more or less at random outside
London.
Roger Shilcock

On Tue, 27 May 1997, Robert D. Shaw wrote:

> Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 07:08:11 -0500
> From: "Robert D. Shaw" <theshaws@-----.net>
> To: klarinet@-----.us
> Subject: Re: All this stuff about asking where to buy things, etc.....
>
> I have the same experience as Diane. I came from the Los Angeles area
> and learned where to get things, but now that I live in NW Arkansas, the
> resources are few and not many people know where to find things. I have
> gladly shared the resources that I know with many people here in NW Ark,
> and will gladly share with anyone on the list who doesn't know.
>
> Deborah
> Diane Karius, Ph.D. wrote:
> >
> > Roger Shilcock wrote (in part):
> > > Where has Gary P. been buying music up to now?... Doesn't he have a
> > > teacher...
> >
> > Depends on where he lives/has lived - I have lived in Chicago
> > (where I had both a teacher who could direct me and the
> > sources to get any piece of music I wanted). I have also lived
> > in Ohio and Kentucky, where (partly due to money, partly due
> > to locale) when I did try to take lessons I spent a significant
> > chunk of lesson time showing my "teacher" alternate fingerings,
> > etc... and where the only music readily available was the Rubank
> > series. Luckily the Chicago experience came first, so I knew
> > what was available. Not everyone is so lucky.
> >
> > Diane K.
>