Klarinet Archive - Posting 000021.txt from 2000/11

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] my wife
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 09:56:33 -0500

You are correct in that the word "eefer" is used to mean an E-flat
clarinet. But I would be untrue to my utter hatred of that word if I
were to end the response there.

Somehow, I visualize a hick in some backwater place in America inventing
that silly and uncomfortable name for such a respectable thing as an
E-flat clarinet. Perhaps that hick, whoever he was, could not pronouce
"E-flat clarinet" or anything else in English so he (or she) invented
the abbreviation.

And why then is there no "beefer" for B-flat clarinet, or "aefer" etc.?

Whenever I hear the term used, I cringe as if to say, "I used to make
some kind of a living on that thing, and I will not be so damn
disrespectful of it as to make it sound like a hillbilly instrument."

["I play washboard. What do you play? ... "I play eefer!"]

If I were interviewing clarinet players for some orchestral position, I
would hold up an E-flat clarinet and say, "What do you call this?" and
anyone who answered "An eefer" would be fed to wild, ravenous, and
ferocious pigs.

MUSIC43@-----.com wrote:
>
> I have a stupid question in regards to this man getting an "eefer" for a birthday present. Is an "eefer" an E flat clarinet????
>

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