Klarinet Archive - Posting 000314.txt from 1998/02

From: "Chuck and Dorothy Bishop" <bishop@-----.net>
Subj: (Fwd) Vernacular
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 21:39:36 -0500

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From: "Chuck and Dorothy Bishop" <bishop@-----.net>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 18:07:57 +0000
Subject: Vernacular
Reply-to: bishop@-----.net
Priority: normal

There is an ancient convention in the clarinet community that a
clarinet is not called a horn. My poor old teacher's body, if he is
tuned to this net, is undoubtedly now worn cylindrical from turning
over (spinning) in his grave. I can't really complain because the
English professors accept such a vulgarism when its use become
popular. If we were to all agree to go back to the nicety of calling
a clarinet a clarinet would we have an exception in the metal
clarinet which is made of brass? We already have exceptions among
the woodwinds in the Basset horn and the English horn but I
still think a clarinet is a CLARINET IS A CLARINET IS A
CLARINET..... Chuck