Klarinet Archive - Posting 000160.txt from 1998/05

From: fsheim@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Benny Goodman's clarinets
Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 16:03:26 -0400

So what kind WAS it?

Fred (fsheim@-----.com)

At 09:06 AM 5/5/98 EDT, you wrote:
>> 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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