Klarinet Archive - Posting 000044.txt from 2000/12

From: fpg <fpg@-----.us>
Subj: Re: [kl] One more reason to practice those long tones....
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 17:29:46 -0500

Wonderful, Bill. Now I can truly look forward to a call from a
telemarketer. I've needed a critical audience to practice in the G4
altissimo area. Might we actually have a measurable impact on marketing?
Frank Galiani

William Wright wrote:

> If there is one thing in this world that I *truly* detest, it 'cold
> calls' from telemarketers. Tonight, just as I was beginning my
> practice, the phone rang and a lady said "Good evening, Sir, I
> represent....."
>
> What the heck, I thought to myself, why not....??
>
> "Good evening," I said, "would you wait just a moment while I
> finish this?" And then I put the phone down, picked up up my clarinet,
> and started my chromatic scale long tones at low E, whole notes with
> 1/4-note @-----. I kept going until I pooped out, which for me is
> high E right now. Then I picked up the phone. Obviously I expected
> the line to be dead, but no, she was still there.
> "You're still here?" I said.
> "I was wondering how high you would go," she replied. Her voice
> was just a little bit embarrassed, I presume because she should've hung
> up long ago and moved on to her next call. "That's not a saxophone, is
> it?"
> "No, it's a clarinet. Just one moment more. I need to do the
> descending scale or it doesn't count as a completed exercise."
>
> She was no longer there when I finished -- which was just as well
> because truthfully I wouldn't have wanted her to hear my wobbling high E
> when I attack it first rather than last.
>
> Cheers,
> Bill
>
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