Klarinet Archive - Posting 000640.txt from 2002/04

From: Lucienne <lucienne@-----.ca>
Subj: [kl] Bob Mcdonald
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 01:57:23 -0400

Hi
I was wonder if any of you know of a web site or email contact for Bob
Mcdonald, repair man in vancouver. Apparently he specializes in clarinets
and basses. thanks Lucienne

At 11:40 AM 4/21/02 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> > So, while I'm in my state of mortification, I'll observe that,
> > etymologically, the term "ayfer" must certainly refer to an A-flat
> clarinet.
>
>from practical experience, most people call mine "that out-of-tune
>annoying high thing" or when it's not present "a-flat, yes, flat, no
>not e-flat, ay-flat. not natural. flat. no not, a half-step below an
>A, a piccolo instrument. oh, never mind."
>
>That Finale 2000 included it in its default instrumentation list might
>be seen as an incentive for more composers to expand the literature
>for the hideous little beast.
>
>Myke Cuthbert
>
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