Klarinet Archive - Posting 000626.txt from 1998/04

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Goodman (was The Infinite vs. Buffet R-13 & E-12)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 13:10:02 -0400

At 09:14 AM 4/13/98 -0400, Ken Wolman wrote:
>Selmer markets a series of "personality posters" of famous people who play
>or played their horns. One of the series is Goodman; so I can only believe
>that if he owned different brands, Selmer was one of them. What I'D like
>to know is which one he was playing for those mindblowing solos on "Sing,
>Sing, Sing" at the 1938 Carnegie Hall concert. That is still the most
>spectacular display of jazz pyrotechnics I've ever heard.
>
I have been led to believe that during that time in his career he was
playing a large-bore Selmer (like the Balanced Tone). But I have seen him
in pictures holding both Selmers and Buffets, at different times in his life.

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