Klarinet Archive - Posting 000539.txt from 2002/04

From: "Gary Smith" <asemsi@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] What will they think of next
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 10:26:16 -0400

Well, Dan, there you go again. I've been experimenting with organic carrots,
and I'm convinced they give a much warmer, "carroty" tone, with a hint of a
Bronx cheer, but that may be a psychoacoustic phenomenon caused by watching
too many Bugs Bunny cartoons in my formative years, I'll concede.

Now, you have insisted that one's one physiology is far more important than
any equipment you may use. If one is what one eats, and one subsists partly
on a diet of former instruments, wouldn't this tend to blur these
distinctions tremendously?

>From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: klarinet <klarinet@-----.org>
>Subject: [kl] What will they think of next
>Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:35:38 -0700
>
>With respect to the vegetable orchestra, I assert that playing on an
>turnip or carrot will produce a sound character no different than if one
>played on a an organic turnip or carrot. This assertion furthers my
>thesis that the sound character of the vegetable is independent of the
>vegetable type. So if you put a carrot or turnip into your mouth, by
>the time the air strikess the body of the turnip or carrot, the sound is
>essentially formed, and anyone who thinks the contrary probably has the
>kind of diminished intellect that permits them to play on a horse
>radish.
>
>Furthermore, only a vegetarian is capable producing a really dark sound
>on such an instrument.
>
>My wisdom is transcendent.
>
>Dan Leeson
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