Klarinet Archive - Posting 000539.txt from 1998/04

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: music and science
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:44:09 -0400

At 11:20 AM 4/10/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>> I would be interested in comments from the professional music side of the
>> list as to whether the reverse is true - that professional musicians have a
>> strong amateur interest in science, math and engineering. I have a theory
>> about it, but let's see the data first.
>>
>> George Kidder
>> gkidder@-----.edu
>>
While my bachelor's degree is in music, I spent 20 years in the Air Force
as a navigator and bombardier on B-52's, a simulator instructor, and an
intelligence officer. I enjoy tinkering with mechanical things (which is
why I can never leave my saxophones alone -- I am always trying to adjust
that last molecule of air leakage out). I never completely gave up
playing, but did very little and only for my own enjoyment, until someone
at the base I was stationed at started a community band. I joined
immediately and eventually became the director of that group until I was
transferred (by that time, everyone there, including the Wing Commander,
knew me as "Benny" because of my clarinet playing). I have been involved
with such groups pretty much ever since, including another one I started
and directed for a while. Interest and experience in science and
technology? Yes. But music is even more fun.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.