Klarinet Archive - Posting 001770.txt from 1998/04

From: "Scott Morrow" <sdm@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] Re: [klarinet] All Metal Clarinets
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 15:52:24 -0400

>-----Original Message-----
>From: LMcclel102 <LMcclel102@-----.com>
>|i've heard them, they're interesting, but as my boss said when an older
one
>|was brought into the shop, and he was asked what was best to do with it,
he
>|answered, "they make really neat lamps..."
>
>Interesting that you brought that up...
>
>I was just looking through a mail order catalog recently (I believe it's
>called "The Music Stand" or something to that nature) and they had taken a
>soprano sax and mounted it into a lamp with a nifty little shade. Granted,
>it cost many hundreds of dollars and the sax was unplayable because they
>gutted it or something, but it was just nifty.
>
>

Okay, I'll bite....

How DO you gut a sax? Aren't they hollow to begin with?!!

-Scott
P.S. I once tried one of those clarinet lamps: almost poked my eye out with
the shade when I tried to play it!
-SDM

Scott D. Morrow
DNA Synthesis Core Facility
Department of Biochemistry
The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
Baltimore, MD 21205
(410) 955-3631

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