Klarinet Archive - Posting 000507.txt from 2000/02

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinettiquette Question
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 14:36:27 -0500

--- "Allen J. Levin" <alevin@-----.net> wrote:

> 2. I launder it when it continues to hold its shape even after I stand
> up - or my wife makes disgusted faces - whichever first occurs.

I like the bit about the wife making disgusting faces!

> 3. A packet of politically incorrect but absorbent cigarette paper on your
> stand is in order. Take a sheet and press it between the horn and the pads
> as needed.

A caveat: make sure you get the NON-gummed kind of cigarette papers.
Remember, these are cigarette papers, intended to be filled with to-
bacco and then rolled up. If you get the kind with the gummy stuff
along one edge, that adhesive will create problems when it comes into
contact with the water in the tone hole.

As for all of this business about whether or not to do your 'business'
in front of the audience, I should think many audience members would
be intrigued to observe that musicians do more than merely blow into,
hit with a stick, our saw at their instruments with a bow. The con-
cert-going "experience" is much more than listening to an ensemble
make music. There are sights, smells, and tactile sensations that
are equal parts of the memories that people take with them when
they leave the auditorium. In other words, if you did anything
other than what you normally do as a clarinetist, you would be rob-
bing your audience of the full range of stimulation that they ex-
pect to receive when they first take their seats. This is not to
say that all of the stimuli during a concert are pleasant (i.e.;
the guy sitting next to you who had baked beans for dinner), but
the positive ones for which you are responsible should not be at-
tenuated or ignored.

-- Neil
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