Klarinet Archive - Posting 000291.txt from 2002/08

From: LeliaLoban@-----.com
Subj: [kl]Paris was wonderful!
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 17:01:07 -0400

Audrey Travis wrote that in Paris,
>I fell in love with the Music Museum.

She tried taking non-flash photos of unusual instruments, but the photos
didn't come out well :
>My intent was to use these shots to show my
>band students that the instruments in use today
>are only part of an ongoing creative process in
the world of music and that this will certainly
>continue in the future. Questions would also be
>raised regarding why some of these instruments
>died out and what might kinds of instrumental
>changes might be created in the future.
[snip]
>Does anyone know of an online source that might
>have a wealth of pictures like these which could
>be downloaded?

Audrrey, the trip sounds wonderful! Color me green!

For photos of unusual bass-pitched instruments, there's a wonderful site,
Grant Green's Contrabass Maniacs page, at contrabass.com. (This time I'm
cautiously not writing the address out as a proper link, having forgotten,
the last time I tried it, that in AOL 7.0, adding the http and the www to the
beginning of a dot-com address evokes the Fire Gods at AOL that automatically
turn plain text into mime-crap that appears on the list as gobbledygook. Did
that to the contrabass list, as a matter of fact. Oops.) I don't remember
the site rules about using pictures, some of which are copyrighted, but
there's a link on the site where you can ask the webmaster. See especially
the "Compendium," a gallery of pictures with descriptions, including
excellent shots of huge clarinets. Be sure to see the one of a Leblanc
person playing on a non-production Leblanc ultra-monstrous clarinet.

Lelia
LeliaLoban@-----.com
addresses)

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