Klarinet Archive - Posting 000565.txt from 2000/08

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] taking up the clarinet again
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 17:51:42 -0400

Thanks, "Neil," and you're welcome Audrey.

--- Mark Charette <charette@-----.org> wrote:

> From: "Audrey Travis" <vsofan@-----.com>

> > Neil
> > I don't know the anecdote about John Bruce Yeh's mp. Could you retell it,
> > please?
> > Thanks!

> ----
> From the archives (http://www.sneezy.org/Databases/Logs/1997/08/001152.txt)
>
> >Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 08:09:04 -0500 (CDT)
> >From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
> >Subject: Re: Bass clar. price and more
>
> [...]
>
> A good story to relate.....which goes beyond clarinets and to mouthpieces:
>
> Lawrie Bloom, John Yeh and I were preparing a Mozart Divertimento for a
> recital on our campus two years ago. I had recently purchased a Charles
> Bay mouthpiece for my Basset Horn, and Lawrie was playing on a Robert
> Scott refaced mouthpiece on his Basset. John endoreses Yamaha, but was
> playing on the CSO's basset horn...made by Leblanc. During a break in the
> rehearsal, we were just sitting there talking about equipment, and Lawrie
> asked what mouthpiece I was using...I told him.....he said he really liked
> the sound of it as well as the Robert Scott. I turned to John and asked
> him what mouthpiece he was playing on.....he said, "Gee I don't
> know.....", took a look at the mouthpiece and said, "I think it's the
> Leblanc that came with the horn."
>
> While John could play on ANYTHING and make it sound good, it was still
> good for a laugh...and also to prove that whatever works is usually best.
>
> Roger Garrett
> Illinois Wesleyan University

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