Klarinet Archive - Posting 001200.txt from 1998/12

From: David Blumberg <reedman@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] re: beginner sounds
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 19:58:35 -0500

From: "Scott Morrow" <scottdmorrow@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] re:to Oboe of not to Oboe
>At 12:56 PM 12/29/98 -0500, David Blumberg wrote:
>Any instrument is difficult to master, and a
>>beginning oboist can make some pretty un-godly sounds ;)
>
>Oboes, along with violins, French horns, and some others, follow what I
>call the "Law of Perversity of Musical Instruments," which states, "The
>more beautiful an instrument sounds played by a professional, the worse
it
>sounds played by a beginner." :-)
Every professional player was once a beginner!
-Scott

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Yup, and I have a cassette tape of me playing (after a couple of weeks) at
my Grandparents house practicing my Clarinet, squeaking, and squawking,
and their Beagle howling in the background!! I remember the first day I
ever played Clarinet, I had 2 Rico reeds. One had a chip in it, and the
other one didn't. I found that I could play one of them easily, and the
other one did not respond hardly at all. (The one that had the chip in the
tip was the one that played.) I went to my uncle who started me playing,
and when he saw the chipped reed, crushed it on the table, telling me to
play the other, uncracked one.
Reed sensitivity from an early age.
David Blumberg
reedman@-----.com
http://www.sneezy.org/david_blumberg/

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