Klarinet Archive - Posting 000771.txt from 2002/01

From: CassildaYhtill@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!! Mastercard Clarinet
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:26:39 -0500

David Blumberg wrote,
>The discussion wasn't about the cost of a
>Clarinet lesson - it was about
>them busting on our profession!

Seem like nobody is getting it but I thought the point was the commercial
shows somebody thinking clarinet is so terrible it is "priceless" to switch
to another more fun or easier instrument. It is a bad image of clarinets.

I notice something in newspaper ads for Music & Arts, for band instruments,
the kid they show playing a clarinet is always the most awful pencil neck
geek with his mouth in a huge geeky grin with too many teeth showing. He
looks like a natural born fool. What kind of a message is that for kids who
might want to play clarinet? How do they sell any clarinet that way anyway? I
am so glad my son fell for the sound and never mind the image. He is only 8
but thinking for himself, not a lemming. At the school where he had to
transfer some kids saw him with the clarinet and start calling him faggot. I
don't think they know what that is suppose to mean in third grade but to them
it mean geek. He hate that school anyway so they never could turn him around
against the clarinet.

Cass Hill

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