Klarinet Archive - Posting 000010.txt from 1999/02

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Woodshedding [Was: HELP!]
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 09:55:58 -0500

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From: Jim O'Briant <jobriant@-----.com>
Date: Saturday, January 23, 1999 10:27 AM
Subject: [kl] Woodshedding [Was: HELP!]

>Paulette W. Gulakowski wrote, in part:
>
>> ["Woodshedding" is] ... a slang term which probably has an interesting
>> background if we could ever find it out ...
>
>"Woodshedding" is a term that dates from the days when most homes had a
small
>building out back, used for the storage of firewood for the furnace,
fireplace
>and/or kitchen stove. When families got sick and tired of hearing a family
>member practice the same thing over and over and over and over, the
musician
>would be banished to the woodshed, to continue his/her practicing out
there --
>out of earshot. (Interesting corollary -- you never hear pianists use the
>term unless they also play another instrument -- you can't take the piano
out
>to the woodshed.)

Yeah, when I was a beginner, I was banished to the bathroom to practice. It
was the room farthest from the living room!

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

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