Klarinet Archive - Posting 001195.txt from 1997/08

From: avrahm galper <agalper@-----.com>
Subj: mouthpiece cap
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 08:07:45 -0400

Mouthpiece caps

If you have a metal ligature, you would have a metal cap.
If you have a leather ligature or whatever, the cap would be plastic or
whatever.

There was one day in our lives at the Toronto Symphony where a
non-metallic cap would have been handy.

This happened in a Mahler symphony. There was an inaudible pianissimo,
you could hear a "pin drop".

So- did a pin drop? NO--- it was the clarinet cap that belonged to
Jack Featherston, our section man.
Dropped on the floor.

Clink, clank, clink clank until it came to a stop.

What does one do when a thing like that happens at a crucial quiet
moment?
Jack nonchalantly picked it up and

HANDED IT TO ME.

Now that was real cool.

Avrahm Galper
Adjunct Professor
Toronto University
Glen Gould
Professional School of Music

   
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