Klarinet Archive - Posting 000157.txt from 1998/05

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] Benny Goodman's clarinets
Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 16:03:23 -0400

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.52
> Subj: Re: Re: [kl] Benny Goodman

> I have been told that Benny Goodman played on Selmer clarinets. True?
>
> Cindy

I personally held Benny Goodman's Selmer clarinet in my hands in
1944 when he was playing with his sextet at a club in NY. I was
a kid of 12 and my brother was going into the navy so my family
took us to the club 400 to hear Goodman. He put his clarinet on
the piano during a break, and I went up to look at it. He said,
"Hey kid. Leave that clarinet alone." and I told him that I just wanted
to see what kind it was. He let me pick it up.

Later in life, he switched to Buffet. And he may have played other
kinds of instruments too. A Dutch player I know, and who played
an Oehler system, said that Goodman played duets with him and
said, "You'll never get anywhere on THAT clarinet, kid."

Years later I played with Goodman when he did the Weber concerto
with the Connecticut Symphony. I was very much in awe of him,
and he behaved like a schmuck. I was disappointed. Maybe he had
a bad day.

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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
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