Klarinet Archive - Posting 000991.txt from 2000/01
From: Lordbob563@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Why?
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 21:06:41 -0500
In a message dated 1/29/0 1:03:08 AM, you wrote:
<<I have a general question that I kind of want to ask because I've heard it
quite a few times in the past few weeks.
I'm 35 years old, I have a decent job in the book business, and a couple of
months ago I bought a clarinet. Kind of on a whim. After a little while of
practicing scales and finger exercises and so on, it became clear that there
was more wrong with the horn than just my technique (a cheap plastic
clarinet bought used). So I took it down to the local repair guy, and while
he's working on it, he asks me, What on Earth possessed you to try to teach
yourself clarinet? A reasonable question really, with no simple answer. Part
of it really, was just to be doing something non-book related.
But I think the question, or part of the question, I actually want to ask
here, is was there a particular player whose music was inspirational to your
deciding to be a clarinet player? For me, the answer ends up being Pee Wee
Russell. I discovered him almost by accident--as he's nearly forgotten
now--and partly I connected with the feeling almost of desperation that's in
his playing, playing like life itself depended on getting it all out, which
for Pee Wee it almost literally did.
So I was kind of wondering if anyone else had been struck the same kind of
way, and who did it to you.
--Bryan
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Subject: [kl] Why?
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I don't know. I remember when I was younger and had to choose what instrument
I was going to play I had a lot of trouble making a decision. I remember we
were learning about jazz in my music class and we covered swing and
dixieland. There was a killer solo on one of the recordings my teacher had
us listen to but I couldn't identify the instrument so I asked my teacher and
when she told me it was a clarinet it solidified my decision because I really
wanted to make that kind of music. To this day though I don't know what the
recording was of or who it was by.
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