Klarinet Archive - Posting 000265.txt from 1999/03

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Options for further education
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 19:16:04 -0500

At 12:06 PM 3/4/99 EST, LeliaLoban wrote:
>I've never experienced military service and I'm not a professional musician,
>but I heard a story about military music from an excellent repairman, Peter
>Ferrrante, who also plays clarinet and sax professionally in Washington,
D. C.
>area dance bands. He told me that when he joined the service (I think it was
>the Navy, but my memory is a bit hazy) in the late 1960s, the recruiter
>encouraged him to expect that he'd play in the band. But once he signed in
>blood, the brass offered him this option:
>
>1. Quit arguing, forget playing in the band and learn to repair instruments
>for the band instead; or
>2. We'll be happy to send you to Vietnam.
>
>He received excellent training, and discovered, much to his surprise, that he
>loved repairing instruments. He now owns his own small shop, Presto Brass
and
>Woodwinds, in Arlington, Virginia.
>
Remember, that's how Vito Pascucci got his start, as a repair tech for
Glenn Miller's overseas band during WW II. While in Paris, he struck up a
friendship with M. Leblanc, and the rest is history!

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
451 Old Orchard Drive http://www.concentric.net/~bhausman
Essexville, MI 48732 http://members.wbs.net/homepages/z/o/o/zoot14.html
ICQ UIN 4862265

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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