Klarinet Archive - Posting 000664.txt from 2000/07

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] Reeds (Legere)
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 21:55:25 -0400

At 08:55 PM 07/19/2000 -0300, you wrote:
>Of course, I use gages...Eric Brand's. I'm also a professional machinist.
>All three of those Pyne's were symetrical. No doubt about it.
>
>Ed Maurey

Thanks for the response - although until your answer I had no idea you were
a professional machinist. Please forgive me for my curiosity. I have no
doubt you are absolutely correct regarding the three Pyne mouthpieces you
measured.

However, Jim Pyne has already responded to the issue you raised.

Sincerely,
Roger Garrett

Roger Garrett
Professor of Clarinet
Director, Symphonic Winds
Advisor, IWU Recording Services
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
(309) 556-3268

A Clarinetist's Revenge is sometimes personified by the following excerpt
from the London Daily News, circa 1926:

"The saxophone is a long metal instrument bent at both ends. It is alleged
to be musical. As regards markings, the creature has a series of tiny taps
stuck upon it, apparently at random. These taps are very sensitive: when
touched they cause the instrument to utter miserable sounds suggesting
untold agony. Sometimes it bursts into tears. At either end there is a
hole. People, sometimes for no reason at all, blow down the small end of
the saxophone which then shrieks and moans."

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