Klarinet Archive - Posting 000743.txt from 2000/02

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinettiquette Question
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 19:12:37 -0500

At 10:37 PM 2/18/2000 -0800, Jonathan Smith wrote:
>about swabbing your clarinet in public, I recommend the artist do it and
>make a neat little show of it. My mother went to a concert and all she
>talked about was how nifty it was to see the clarinetist take his instrument
>apart and "pull this cloth through it" in between passages. She especially
>thought he was cool because he could do this while everyone else was
>playing, and with professional aplomb.
>
I saw (former?) list member Lorne Buick performiong with the Vancouver Wind
Trio some years ago. At one point in the concert, he pulled out the folded
red silk handkerchief that had been tastefully peeking from his jacket
pocket, which proved to be, in fact, a silk swab, and he proceeded to dry
his bore.

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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