Klarinet Archive - Posting 000493.txt from 1998/01

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: exciting
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:10:02 -0500

> EbKlarinet wrote:
> > clarinetists are introverted (see also The Musical Temperament: Psychology
> > and Personality of Musicians by Anthony Kemp). G is obviously a huge
> > extrovert (like me :~0 mouth open wide!) and we express ourselves very
> > vehemently, to put it mildly! :~) This can tend to rub the more introveted
> > people the wrong way, but we don't mean to offend--it's just our style---for
> > more on this subject, check out the Myers-Briggs type personality profiles.
> > As Type Talk puts it, 'our bark is worse than our bite' !

Excuse me as I laugh out loud at the suggestion that I might be
introverted. Nothing could be further from the truth.....

One does not need to be introverted or extroverted to be offended by poor
social manners.

Roger Garrett
IWU