Klarinet Archive - Posting 000831.txt from 2002/05

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re:quotes and such - a short (true) story
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 19:09:33 -0400

Go Buckeyes, eh?

--- jim & joyce <lande@-----.com> wrote:
> >>It turned out that she was the only person in
> >>the group who knew what a clarinet was.
>
> No surprise. Probably none would know the purpose of having
> a bell on a typewriter, either. To most kids, the clarinet
> is just another "sound" on the synthesizer. Lets face it.
> We're just standing on the edge of the tar pit, wondering at
> the sarrusophones, sackbuts and lutes and such, never
> feeling the bank crumbling beneath our feet.
>
> Actually, the story reminds me of how I used to take my
> clarinet to the Varsity Grill (i.e. bar) near my campus
> (circa 1970) and play along with the records. Guys would
> come over and say "I used to play one of those. Can I try
> it?" I would say "tell me what it is called." And they
> would look at my wooden clarinet and almost always say "Its
> a flute, right?" Only one guy ever knew it was a clarinet.
>
> If I didn't have a clarinet along, I always had a blues
> harmonica. Even more drunks wanted to show you their harp
> licks than try a clarinet. So I palmed a second harp, a
> minor key harp, which I would pass over. They would get the
> funniest looks on their faces and they would complain that
> there was something wrong with it, man. So I would take it
> back and play a blues riff on the major key harp. Then they
> wanted it back and by then their friends are laughing at
> them.
>
> What were we talking about? Must be getting old here.
>
> cheers
> jim
>
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