Klarinet Archive - Posting 000674.txt from 2000/07

From: Nicholas Yuk Sing Yip <nyip@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinetfest 2000
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 01:23:22 -0400

On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Doug Sears wrote:

> I had a great time at Clarinetfest -- learned a lot, met interesting people,
> heard wonderful music. I made the mistake of leaving some of the things I
> wanted to do till Sunday morning, when I found that most of the exhibitors
> had already packed up and left. So I missed my chance to try blowing on the
> sarrusophone at the museum booth next door to Mark and sneezy.org's. Did
> anybody try it?
I enjoyed it very much. It was very interesting.
> High point for me was trying out Stephen Fox's clarinets
> (www.sfoxclarinets.com), especially his new Benade NX model, which wasn't as
> different from a standard Boehm clarinet as I expected. I didn't have to
> change my playing technique much -- I just sounded better, especially on the
> lowest notes. The low E and the third-line B are unbelievable.
>
> Low point was when I left my black Clarinetfest bag (nice bag!) in the small
> lecture hall for a few minutes and it disappeared. It had some valuable (to
> me) items in it: a mouthpiece, appointment book, and notebook with
> irreplaceable notes. If you haven't looked in your bag since you got it,
> _please_ take a look and make sure you didn't pick up mine by mistake.
>
> --Doug
> ----------------------------
> Doug Sears dsears@-----.org/~dsears
>
>
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