Klarinet Archive - Posting 000786.txt from 2002/03

From: "David B. Niethamer" <dnietham@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Vito Alto Clarinet
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 23:08:25 -0500

on 3/26/2002 1:14 AM, James Snell wrote:

>Grainger played the saxophone.

Grainger was a concert pianist. I think it was during WW1 that he wanted
to enlist in the army to help the war effort. So he picked up a sax and
learned "The Blue Bells of Scotland" well enough to get himself into a
military band. When they discovered that BBS was all he knew, supposedly
they switched him to mallet percussion. I got the story from someone who
knew his widow.

David

David Niethamer
Principal Clarinet, Richmond Symphony
dnietham@-----.edu
http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/

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