Klarinet Archive - Posting 001329.txt from 1998/03

From: Jack Kissinger <kissingerjn@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Ralphing
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 17:40:42 -0500

Mark Charette wrote:

> Shouryu Nohe wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Mark Charette wrote:
> >
> > > Not by Mr. Von Williams.
> > >
> > > Ding.
> >
> > I suspect that there's something to do with Ralph VAUGHN Williams here,
> > but as a lowly college student, I'm very clueless.
>
> As I ding myself, knowing better than to write Von vs. Vaughn.
>

How about another DING for both you and Shouryu. ;^) Ralph VAUGHAN
Williams.

Warm regards,
Jack

P.S. It seems to me that an audition committee (for a college freshman)
should be more interested in how well your son can play than what clarinets
he has. With an A and a Bb, he should be adequately equipped. If he can
play Eb or bass, that may be a plus but I doubt it would enter into the
audition unless your son indicated a desire to specialize in one of those
instruments on his application. If a school makes its decision based on what
equipment your son owns rather than what he can do with the equipment he has,
is that the school he should attend? It seems to me that this mania about
the "correct" clarinet is being blown out of proportion. I have it on pretty
good authority that the only member of the St. Louis Symphony to own a C
clarinet is Bob Coleman. (But what do I know. I'm currently in the process
of restoring and learning how to play an old Albert system C.)

   
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