Klarinet Archive - Posting 001156.txt from 1997/09

From: mac720@-----.com (Matt A Cullen)
Subj: Re: My first clarinet...names
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 22:52:19 -0400

I thought you were supposed to soak it in champagne then smash it over
you Band directors head!

On Wed, 24 Sep 1997 21:05:42 -0400 "Nichelle A. Crocker"
<crockena@-----.edu> writes:
>I thought you were supposed to smash a champagne bottle against it...
>
>At 05:26 PM 9/24/97 -0500, Gary Young wrote:
>>Re christening clarinets:
>>
>>There are some difficult choices here. Do you baptize by immersion?
>Or
>>just sprinkle? (And if you baptize by immersion, what if the
>clarinet
>>doesn't float?) What is the appropriate garment for the clarinet to
>wear
>>to the christening? Is a swab sufficient, or is it too revealing?
>If the
>>clarinet seems distressed, is it permissible to put a reed and
>ligature in
>>its mouth to pacify it? Who should you invite to the service? Will
>people
>>who don't play clarinet understand the importance of such a ceremony?
> Will
>>people who do? May you invite only other clarinets, or must you also
>
>>invite their persons? Is it ever appropriate to invite an oboe? In
>your
>>announcement in the press, do you just give the instrument's name, or
>do
>>you also indicate that it is a clarinet?
>>
>>Hoping you can help me.
>>
>>
>>> Do you think it is wrong to change the name of an
>instrument... I
>>>didn't christen it yet....
>>
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>
>Nichelle Crocker
>crockena@-----.edu
>
>