Klarinet Archive - Posting 000151.txt from 2000/11

From: Gary Truesdail <gir@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl]: excessive moisture
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 03:35:31 -0500

Lots of performers do the same thing today. Do what you do, make it look
miraculous, extreemly difficult, only for experienced people, OR very
entertaining as though there is no way in H... you are going to pull that off and
then do it with grace and ease as if it was an every-day affair.
It is called entertainment. I once had the same problem, used my swab, and the
swab got stuck. I reached for the tuning/cleaning rod from the 1st flute player
sitting in front of me, on a lower riser so as I bent over I must have looked
like I was doing some kind of extraordinary Yoga exercise,
and used it to shove the swab back out in the direction from whence it came just
in time to play my next entrance. (I almost remember now. We were playing some
Beethoven thing that had 60 measures rest.) A good time to polish your shoes or
do an entertaining trick with your multicolored swab, like, maybe make doves
appear. Wouldn't that be a gass? Can't you see the reviews now. Principal
Clarinetist of the ?????????????? Symphony steals show. While attempting to
remove moisture from his instrument by using a cloth device known as an
instrument swab, similar to a magicians magic silk scarf, a dozen beautiful white
doves seem to fly out of the bell of the musicians clarinet thereby evoking
sighs of wonderment and well-being form the entire assemblage of stuffed shirt
patrons.

MVinquist@-----.com wrote

> David Glenn writes:
>
> >I had a lovely gurgle. In the few bars' rest which followed the intro before
> the theme I yanked out my swab/pull through and cleaned out the horn. The
> conductor nearly had a heart attack but I made it just in time for my next
> entry. The cleaning action found its way into the review in the paper.<
>
> I don't remember the source, but I have read that when Hermstedt (for whom
> Spohr wrote his concertos) came out on stage, he wore a large coat with many
> pockets but did not carry his clarinet. As the orchestral introduction
> began, he reached into the pockets, pulled out the various joints and put
> them together. As his entrance approached, he would slap a reed on the
> mouthpiece, tie it on with string in a blur of motion and snap it up to his
> lips just in time for the first note.
>
> Imagine if someone tried that today.
>
> Ken Shaw
>
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