Klarinet Archive - Posting 000611.txt from 1998/10

From: James.P.Reed@-----.net (James P Reed)
Subj: Re: [kl] (no subject)
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 14:23:37 -0400

Lelia wrote:

> I write fiction, too, and to my mind, the fact that metal
>clarinets were anathema in the late 1950s would make for much better >fictional possibilities than if your character owned what we
>considered a good-quality horn; but then I write horror!

Thanks to you and everyone else so far. This is the idea I'm playing
with and appreciate your encouragement.

I grew up through that period and learned to do air raid drills in a
community with Dow Chemical and Dow Corning as the major industries. We
were always told the entire valley would go up if there was a hit
anywhere in the area.

Anyways, the idea of a metal clarinet came to me from something I can't
find and may really have wrong in my memory. I thought I once read that
Richard Stoltzman started out on a metal horn his father got him. Plus,
I like the idea of the social value tradeoffs between metal, wood, and
resonite that a kid would be faced with.

Please note, I've only been playing a clarinet for 4 months now so I'm
still going through a fairly steep learning curve on which the klarinet
list is providing an invaluable education.

Jim Reed

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