Klarinet Archive - Posting 000596.txt from 1999/01

From: Dodgshun family <dodgshun@-----.nz>
Subj: RE: [kl] Albert S.& Programs
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 16:04:17 -0500

At 03:55 PM 12/01/99 -0800, you wrote:

>The Albert Schweitzer thing is a little different. As a lover of cats, I
>don't care what we call him. Wasn't he a reasonable proficient musician,
>though? I believe he played organ--although this is hard to imagine, with
>him in the jungle all those years. Perhaps he had a portable model.

According to my book on him, the Paris Bach Society presented him with a
special piano; it had pedals (like an organ) which operated the same strings
as the normal piano keyboard. It was specially built for him, and I have a
feeling it was lined with zinc to protect it in the jungle.

>As far as misspelling generally--and to bring this back somewhere to a topic
>we can discuss--my last name is Fay. That's F-A-Y. One wouldn't think it
>would be misspelled in programs, but one would be wrong. In the hundreds of
>performances that I have done over the years, the error rate is running at
>about 35%. My oboe-playing friend from high school, Peter Velikonja, OTOH,
>always has his spelled correctly.

Dodgshun is usually spelt wrongly.........we've had a few interesting variants.
It's also given rise to my nickname; ever since my sixth form history
teacher started calling me Dodgy, everyone else does too!

Anna

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