Klarinet Archive - Posting 001245.txt from 1999/05

From: Ken Wolman <Ken.Wolman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] The sporting life
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 12:10:23 -0400

bfogle@-----.org wrote:
>
> Kevin wrote:
> "Clarinet playing is like fishing. If you fish, sooner or later you will own
> every lure ever made. (Some of them even catch fish!)"
>
> 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"?

Sane. Sane??

<pause>

SANE??????????????????? Hahahahahahahaha! People who play either for a
living or even as an avocation are, to use my mother's term, mishugeh.
It comes with the territory. Wouldn't have it any other way, thank you.

As a child of da Bron-ix, I don't tawk British too gud. Could a
"head-joint" be a mouthpiece or barrel? The neck on a bass clarinet?
I'm more interested in what Kell meant by "and the like." The perfect
(i.e., self-laundering) swab? The ligature that transforms a crappy
reed and mouthpiece into a device to make angels weep or, at worst, into
a really superior duck-call?

As for crooks, I suppose Kell meant that everyone ought to have a second
occupation to fall back on after the old clarinet blows out. Maybe he
intended that we all become shepherds. For other meanings of "crook," I
will leave that to your own private definitions.

Ken
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