Klarinet Archive - Posting 001244.txt from 1999/05

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] The sporting life
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 12:07:29 -0400

On Thu, 27 May 1999, William Fogle wrote:

> I was just this morning reading an article written by Reginald Kell,
> in which he writes: "Who else but a genuine sportsman could grapple
> with reeds, crooks, head-joints, and the like, yet at the same time
> remain cheerful and sane?"
>
> Anyone out there British or able to translate "crooks" and "head
> joints"?

I'm not British, but by "crooks" he means bocals, the metal tubes of
bassoons and English horns on which the reed is placed, and by "head
joints" he is referring to the business end of a flute.

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu

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