Klarinet Archive - Posting 001000.txt from 1999/05

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Unfeeling Band Directors
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 21:52:39 -0400

At 07:33 AM 5/20/99 -0500, Jack Kissinger wrote:
>So here's my question: Did/do any of you on the list go to a grade/junior
>high/high school where there was/is a requirement that you have a
professional
>clarinet? Can anyone on the list, from personal observation (not heresay)
>document the existence of a school district with such a requirement?
Maybe I'm
>wrong about this but, if so, I would like to see some evidence.
>
At least one person has recently related that there was heavy pressure at
HIS school (college level, though) to buy the Buffet RC. I think a high
school director would have to have a lot of nerve to ask parents to shell
out that kind of dough, for ANY pro-grade instrument. Same goes for
private instructors at that level.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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