Klarinet Archive - Posting 000543.txt from 2002/04

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] What will they think of next
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:57:34 -0400

Let's get a little clarity and exactitude here. I never mentioned
anything about eating vegetables. In fact, I don't consider vegetables
to be part of the basic food group. For me the basic food group
consists of Reese's peanut butter cups, rocky road ice cream, and tongue
burritos.

All I was referring to was the sound one achieves when playing on a
turnip. Now that I think about it, I won't even work with anyone who
would eat a turnip. They are funny looking, mottled, and purple with a
little beard that comes out of the bottom. But insofar as getting a
bright German sound or mottled Lithuania sound, you can't beat an
organic turnip, though you do have to tie the reed on with string made
from the leaves of a leek.

I think I shall ask Steve Fox how much it would cost to make an English
cucumber basset horn for me with chocolate keys, maybe pitched in G.

(This is what happens to one of the great minds of the 14th century
after years of playing basset horn. The brain gets very mushy.)

Dan Leeson
Gary Smith wrote:
>
> 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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