Klarinet Archive - Posting 000755.txt from 2000/06

From: alevin@-----. Levin)
Subj: Re: [kl] Tony's tagline
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 17:02:25 -0400

I'm no expert; but I remember a college roommate claiming that the number 8
was associated with the Divine.

At 05:22 PM 6/15/00 EDT, you wrote:
>Re. the numerology of the clarinet, I wrote that the bell, the lower joint,
>the upper joint, the barrel, the mouthpiece and the reed add up to 6.
>
>Fred Sheim asked,
>>No ligature?
>
>and James Marioneaux asked,
>>>Wat about the mouthpiece cap?
>
>Excellent! If we start with 6 (The Lovers, Venus, artistry, harmony! -- but
>with a hint of The Devil...), then count the lig as one piece, then adding
>the mouthpiece cap brings the total up to 8. That's Justice in old Tarot
>decks (before the 19th century Rider-Waite revisionists switched Strength
and
>Justice -- ptooey, ptooey). Do we really want Justice...? Uh-oh, I sure
>don't! I'm afraid I'd get what I deserve! Anyway, 8 is associated with
>Saturn, misfits, revolutionaries, fires, wars, explosions, Fate, influence
of
>ill-wishers, etc..
>
>Better count the ligature screws separately, and get rid of that 8 (and not
>tune to a@-----. That's an auspicious
>number, as long as we're not Vietnamese. For the Vietnamese, 10 means "the
>worst." Oh, but whoops! -- If we count the mouthpiece cap, we should count
>the lyre, right? -- and that means, if it's a 2-screw lig, then we're up to
>11, which stands for Strength, but we're gonna need it, we sad, confined,
>muzzled lions, to stand the suffering, trials, betrayal, house divided and
so
>forth. Never mind, we can count the lyre screw separately, too, and bring
>the number up to 12. Gosh, we don't want that! It's the number of the
>Victim, the Sacrifice, stalemate, lack of progress -- the Hanged Man! Well,
>maybe it only means a vacation, or a pause to reflect. But maybe not.
Okay,
>okay, add in the keys, corks, etc.. (Notice how numerologists worry their
>clients by making sure there's an unpleasant possibility attached to just
>about any number. A worried client will come back and pay for another
>reading....)
>
>If the number of parts still comes out ominous, then change the type of
>ligature to a shoelace or a 1- screw model, until everything works out more
>auspiciously. A conscientious clarinetist must of course consider all these
>matters carefully before deciding which brand and model of clarinet to buy.
>Wait, do those itty-bitty screws count separately or only as parts of the
>key? Must we count the key- posts separately? The tenon rings? What
about
>articulated keys made of 2 pieces? Is an articulated key a 1 or a 2?
>
>And a-one and a-two and-a....
>
>Does the clarinetist count as a part? People all have our own numbers,
>discovered through our birthdates, the spellings of our names and that sort
>of thing.
>
>Bill Wright wrote,
>>>>Did you ever notice how clarinetists insist on reducing all tones
>>>>to simple integer recipes, playing only the odd-numbered ones, putting
>>>>their souls into their music and aspiring to darkness?
>
>Hmm, good point.... Interesting color symbolism we've got here, too. Black
>= intense concentration, but can also mean darkness in the sense of
>confusion, negativity or evil. Silver = The Moon, both positive
(discovery,
>learning the mysteries) and negative (deception, scandal, error, failure)
>aspects. And then one must consider which incense to burn....
>
>One could while away an entire practice period on considering such matters,
>but of course it would be time well spent....
>
>>;-)
>Lelia
>~~~~~~~~~
>It's bad luck to be superstitious.
>~~~~~~~~~
>
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