Klarinet Archive - Posting 000468.txt from 1999/02

From: Syrinx <delta@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Celebration
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 17:21:59 -0500

Thanks for posting this on the Klarinet list, Ed! We all need to remember
our first steps time and again. I remember seeing my saxophone for the
first time in the music store - the clerk opened the case under a shaft of
four o'clock sunlight streaming in from the window - it looked like a
sleeping god!

Anyway, I have a private music studio and would like to put this snippet of
your story up on our "Why We Love Music" bulletin board, if that's okay
with you.

If anyone else would like to share their happy memories of music, please do!

Thanks! Have a grrrrreat party!

-Dell Taylor
Lansing, Michigan (originally from Burgin, KY!)

>It was at West Side Elementary School in Hopkinsville, Kentucky where this
>singular event occurred, one which obviously was a highlight of my life.
>My instrument was a Pan-American ebonite clarinet. I have never forgotten
>the emotions I experienced when I first viewed those beautiful, shiny
>nickel-plated keys and that gleaming black clarinet juxtaposed against the
>red fake-plush lining of the case. I think my eyes glazed over and I saw
>the gates of heaven open and heard angels singing! We used the "Easy
>Steps to the Band" method book, and the first note I ever played was a
>written F on the first space of the treble clef (thumb only - see, I still
>haven't forgotten the fingering!). From that point on, music and I were
>inseparable companions.
>
>Very fortunately for me, I'm still as enthusiastic about music today as I
>was 50 years ago. And, I'm already planning the party I'm going to have
>on the 100th anniversary of that occasion! ;-)
>
>Dr. Edwin Lacy
>Professor of Music
>University of Evansville

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