Klarinet Archive - Posting 000653.txt from 2001/05

From: "Patricia Spillane Smith" <pattiesmith@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Crazy Parade Thing (Answer expanded)
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 07:02:08 -0400

Ken Shaw wrote, re: the old Bundy "screamers" issued to military musicians
for parade use:

I'm not sure it made much difference
with the Bundys, which were pretty much invulnerable to abuse. They dried
out fast enough that the bladder pads never swelled, at least on the one I
played.

Patricia:

In the Navy, we too had those. Yes, they were invulnerable to just about
anything. But, to be honest, I just never could stand how awful they
sounded when most people played them. Perhaps that is because we were
playing trying to get in tune with a wall of saxophones and trumpets with
only two clarinets per ceremonial band? Instrumentation - I kid you not -
four trumpets, two altos saxes, one or two tenors two clarinets (three if we
were lucky) one piccolo...
four trombones, one tuba...I could have left something out. Memories.

Patricia Spillane Smith
"Talent just defines what you do, it doesn't define what you are.
Deep down, when you know what you are, you can do anything."
-Discworld

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