Klarinet Archive - Posting 001208.txt from 1997/08

From: "Tahna Britton" <tahnab@-----.com>
Subj: Re: decision to play clarinet
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 15:13:52 -0400

Gary, thanks for the story. It's intresting to remember why the decision
to play clarinet was made in the first place. Does anyone else have a
story?

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> From: Gary Hopkins <ghopkins@-----.net>
> To: klarinet@-----.us
> Subject: Re: Bass clar. price and more
> Date: Thursday, August 28, 1997 7:02 AM
>
> Someone asked why someone else decided to play clarinet.....
>
>
> Well, the first day of school in 1963 I told the band director I wanted
to
> play tuba. He checked a sousaphone out to me. I took it home on my
bicycle
> that afternoon. That experience was enough to convince me to find
something
> else to play. My dad found an old hard rubber clarinet at a garage sale
the
> next weekend. Being the lazy sort, I took to its ease of transport. I've
> stuck with it since.
>
> Gary