Klarinet Archive - Posting 001134.txt from 1997/11

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: Otto Link mouthpieces
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 17:51:21 -0500

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.30
> Subj: RE: Otto Link mouthpieces

> On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:
>
> > On West 48th Street in NYC were the music stores and shops that
> > clarinet players (and others) visited. One of them was "Linx
> > and Long." It was a small music store located on the second floor
> > a building opposite Manny's music. It also held music studios
> > which the key players of the city rented and used for lessons,
> > snoozing in downtown Manhattan between gigs, and occasionally
> > having an assignation or two.
>
> What's an assignation, Dan?

In the main, the clarinet players in NY that had the important
jobs, and the key free lance players were all men. Occasionally,
one of them might take a young lady to his studio for purposes
other than playing clarinet. It is called an "assignation."

I once went for a lesson with one of the big guns and showed
up at whatever time I was supposed to be there. I knocked,
and the person (whose name I do not choose to discuss) came
to the door and opened it, keeping his body behind the door.
I think he was as naked as a jaybird but I can't be sure because
the door was in the way, But at a minimum he had no shirt on.
I heard female giggling in the room. He told me to come back
in an hour. When I returned, I got my lesson.

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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
leeson@-----.edu
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