Klarinet Archive - Posting 001184.txt from 2000/05

From: "Kevin Callahan" <kionon@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] wrong instrument
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 02:27:23 -0400

----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] wrong instrument

> At 12:21 AM 5/25/2000 EDT, James Marioneau wrote:
> >As I jokingly tell my trombone playing friends, I would not want to play
an
> >instrument that could be built by a plumber. Someone (I don't recall
who)
> >said the clarinet is the instrument most like the human voice. What is
the
> >trombone most like?
> >
> Actually, I thought the saxophone was considered to be most like the human
> voice. They even use on in the offstage chorus in Holst's "The Planets,"
> as I understand it, to help keep the pitch. It blends in so well as to be
> unheard.
>
> As for the trombone, as played by many people, I believe it is closest to
> the sound of a human expelling superfluous methane! :-)
>

Must you tempt me, Bill? Must you?

*idly beats Bill gently with his trombone tube cleaner thingie*

Kevin Callahan
There is no such thing as bad instrument... except maybe certain part of the
human anatomy.

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