Klarinet Archive - Posting 000952.txt from 1998/02

From: "Scott Morrow" <sdm@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Backwards clarinets
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 11:01:25 -0500

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Fay <kevinfay@-----.com>
Date: Friday, February 27, 1998 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: Backwards clarinets

>In my office (on the wall right here!) I have a Benny Goodman
>poster/shrine with a Hirschfeld cartoon--you guessed it, with the right
>hands on top.
>
>Of course, in the cartoon BG has four (4) hands as well. ;-)!!
>
>kjf
If he has four hands, how can you tell it's the RIGHT hand that's on top?!
And what DO you call the other two hands, anyway (right, left, ????, ????).
Suggestions?

Extra credit question:
1) How would the development of multi-armed clarinetists have affected
Mozart's compositions? Beethoven's? Leroy Anderson's?

-Scott

   
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