Klarinet Archive - Posting 000918.txt from 1998/02

From: George Kidder <gkidder@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: backwards clarinet
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 15:09:20 -0500

Errors aside (and they are howlers) I seem to remember reading that some
time ago (a century?) when instruments were hand made, certain French firms
would make a reversed clarinet on special order. They (and the people who
played them) were called "gauchers" as one might expect. I have never seen
such an instrument myself.
>
>Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:31:05 -0500 (EST)
>From: dap@-----. Paprocki)
>Subject: Re: Backwards clarinets
>
>Anna,
> I think Yamaha makes a backwards clarinet. If you check out their
>newest ad - it shows a person at a workbench working on a backwards
>professional clarinet. - I think this is the RN model Yamaha or the
>"reverse negative" model. I hope Yamaha is more careful with making
>clarinets than with advertising photos.
>
>Dan
>
>
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> Daniel A. Paprocki
>
> Instructor of Clarinet & Music, Malone College
> Adjunct Professor of Clarinet, Kent State University - Stark Campus
>
> dap@-----.net
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>Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 11:25:32 -0500
>From: Stan Elias <elias@-----.net>
>Subject: Re: Backwards clarinets
>
>Dan, are you sure they didn't accidentally flop the photo? ;-)
>
>Stan Elias
>
>

>
>Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 11:13:34 -0600
>From: Jack Kissinger <kissingerjn@-----.EDU>
>Subject: Re: Backwards clarinets
>
>Several years ago, there was a reasonably well-known regional artist who
>was doing small sculptures of jazz musicians and jazz groups. As a
>Christmas surprise, my wife commissioned him to do a clarinetist for me.
>You guessed it, the artist did the sculpture with the right hand on top.
>What a relief to find out, after all these years, that the artist didn't
>screw up -- he just sculpted a guy playing a Yamaha RN model! I wonder
>if the artist is now working for Yamaha's art department). ;^)
>
>Thanks for the clarification, Dan.
>
>Warm regards,
>
>Jack Kissinger
>St. Louis
>