Klarinet Archive - Posting 000837.txt from 1998/02

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Contrabass playing tips
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:22:35 -0500

On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Edward Branham wrote:

> 2) Professional instruction: make sure that your instructor plays
> contrabass regularly, and is qualified as a clarinet instructor.

I've been sitting here at the computer, contemplating that qualification.
Right off the top of my head, I can't think of a single university
professor of clarinet or professional clarinetist who "plays contrabass
regularly." I'm sure there must be one somewhere, but the phrases
"clarinet instructor" and "plays contrabass regularly" seem to me to be
dangerously close to being an oxymoron.

OK, now I'm signing off to batten down the hatches against the barrage of
nasty notes which are sure to issue from all the professional contrabass
clarinet players in the world! ;-)

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu