Klarinet Archive - Posting 000973.txt from 1998/02

From: George Kidder <gkidder@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Backwards clarinets
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 14:18:53 -0500

Its obvious. Goodman was such a great clarinetist that whatever hand he had
on top was clearly the right hand.

>Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 11:01:25 -0500
>From: "Scott Morrow" <sdm@-----.edu>
>Subject: Re: Backwards clarinets
>
>- -----Original Message-----
>From: Kevin Fay <kevinfay@-----.com>
>To: klarinet@-----.us>
>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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