Klarinet Archive - Posting 000224.txt from 1998/05

From: fsheim@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Woody Herman
Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 08:47:26 -0400

Goodman, DeFranco, Morales, Daniels, Johnson - all very familiar.
Who's Ken Peplowski?

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

At 08:27 AM 5/6/98 -0400, you wrote:
>> I once heard a live performance by Buddy DeFranco in which he had
>> apparently tired of answering those questions, so before he began to play,
>> he told the audience what brand of clarinet, mouthpiece, ligature and reed
>> he was using. The audience consisted entirely of jazz musicians. Some of
>> them apparently were caught off guard by this little dissertation, and
>> there were thinly veiled snickers throughout the room. This in turn
>> seemed to take De Franco by surprise, and he somewhat sheepishly said,
>> "Well, everyone always seems to want to know." Then he went on with his
>> performance, and impressed everyone with both his sound _and_ his great
>> playing.
>
>I think he plays Yamaha clarinets, has for years, and even works as one of
>their clinicians. Surprised the hell out of me: I'm old enough to still
>associate Yamaha with motorcycles.
>
>I play a Selmer but I do NOT sound like Benny Goodman.
>
>I don't think owning a Yamaha would make me play like DeFranco.
>
>A Buffet would not make me sound like Ken Peplowski.
>
>A LeBlanc wouldn't turn me into Morales or Daniels.
>
>And a Peter Eaton wouldn't make me sound like Emma Johnson.
>
>And I call that a damn shame all around....
>
>Now, what did DeFranco say about his reeds, mouthpiece, and ligature?:-)
>
>Ken
>
>
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