Klarinet Archive - Posting 000901.txt from 1998/02

From: Edward Branham <ebb@-----.net>
Subj: Re: Contrabass playing tips
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 08:35:05 -0500

Given the recent thread on defining professional, I should have known better
than to use that word. This is a bit of a subjective call, as you and I
might list differing 'qualifications' for a professional, qualified clarinet
instructor.

Flaming myself into a cinder ...

Edwin V. Lacy wrote:

> 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