Klarinet Archive - Posting 000875.txt from 2002/03

From: Audrey Travis <vsofan@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] on the subject of a player's sound...
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 11:29:13 -0500

Dan
Thank goodness *I* don't want to marry your daughter....

Audrey

Dan Leeson wrote:

> Kevin said,
>
> > The first part of my post was to poke a little fun at Dan Leeson - I saw his
> > pooh-poohing of Kelly's affection for the Selmer 10-G a little at odds with
> > the shameless lust he showed us all this summer over his new Fox bassett
> > horn. (An aside - I saw it at ClarinetFest; it is indeed a cutie. Wish I
> > had had the gumption to try it out.)
> >
> The last person who tried to poke fun at me sits in a pit of guilt from
> which he may never emerge.
>
> Of course I got the most beautiful, well made, and gold plated basset
> horn that I could buy because I think I play better when I have
> something beautiful to play upon. But I do not delude myself that if
> Steve had made the instrument out of plastic (but with the same care and
> attention to detail as he did on my cocobolo wood model), that it would
> have had any effect on how it sounds.
>
> I like beautiful things solely because they are beautiful. And the
> nature of the color of the wood, its grain, coupled with the gold of the
> keys puts me into a better frame of mind psychologically when I play.
> Whether I play better or not is arguable, but I THINK I play better.
> The fact that I am the envy of the world's basset horn population
> (though for the wrong reasons) doesn't hurt my ego either.
>
> In the words of the immortal Max Bialastock, "When you got it, flaunt
> it!"
>
> You are looking for me to contradict myself in some way, an uncharitable
> thing to do. As a result you may not marry my daughter either.
>
> Dan
>
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> *Dan Leeson *
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