Klarinet Archive - Posting 000034.txt from 2001/12

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Interesting facts (?)
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 20:55:02 -0500

Sitting here at work at 8:30 on a Sunday night, I'm laughing my head off
at these practical jokes. I'm just not a devious enough person. In 22
years of playing in umpteen orchestras, it never occurred to me take a
jab at one of my colleagues like this. But now I know...! ;-)

Side note: played a pleasurable chamber recital this afternoon at a retirees'
home in the Bronx. It's funny that I used to hate the Kegelstatt Trio, and
now I find it delicate and completely charming. My Brahms Sonata #2 was out-
shone by the violinist doing the Kreisler Sonata (the show-off!). When he
first started working on it, the pianist and I renamed it the Creutzfeld-
Jakob Sonata, it was so choppy and full of holes at the time. We closed
with Milhaud's Suite for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano -- one of the more
substantive crowd pleasers.

--- "David B. Niethamer" <dnietham@-----.edu> wrote:
> >>From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
> >
> >>I HAVE seen a paper clip in a trumpet valve (not pretty!). And I have
> >>personally repaired a young clarinetist's instrument at a band festival by
> >>removing a DIME that had become wedged in the lower part of the bore
> >>(Lesson: don't leave loose change in your case!).
>
> >on 11/28/2001 4:50 PM, Jim Hobby wrote:
>
> >I once removed a penny from between the barrel and the top joint of a
> >clarinet. It wasn't an accident, though. The girl's older brother had a
> >wicked sense of humor. <g>
>
> When I was in high school we discovered the "penny in the barrel" trick
> at a Regional Band festival (eastern PA, USA). The conductor was very
> patient and let us have our fun, and soon everyone knew to look before
> they had played a note.
>
> We did a piece for four horns and band, and the stage drill was that the
> first four clarinets put their clarinets on their chairs and went off
> stage to get a chair and stand for each of the soloists. We discovered
> that a quarter between the lower joint and the bell only blocked the E/B
> and muffled the F/C, so we tried that. When the first four clarinetists
> came back to play, everything was fine until halfway down the first page,
> where they hit their first long B. They had to stop to remove the "spare
> change" and the rest of the section couldn't play for laughing! The
> conductor looked away into the brasses until we had composed ourselves,
> and then we started over.
>
> David
>
> David Niethamer
> Principal Clarinet, Richmond Symphony
> dnietham@-----.edu
> http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/
>
>
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