Klarinet Archive - Posting 000176.txt from 2002/10

From: LeliaLoban@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Bub-fudge (was: [kl] Dover Scores)
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 12:55:08 -0400

Gary Truesdail wrote,
>Bub-Fudge --- I can't find it in Grove's. Is it a new
>musical term along the lines of 'claribass'

LOL! I first encountered the term "bub-fudge" in one of my favorite books
about organic gardening, _Peacock Manure and Marigolds_, by Janet Gillespie
(New York: Viking, 1964; Ballantine 1972 pb). Shortly before her family quit
using poisons, a pesticide applicator she'd hired to spray her apple trees
"arrived at seven o'clock in the morning and blew DDT into the yard from the
street" with a truck-mounted stovepipe blower. Her husband said, "'That's a
pretty bub-fudge job of spraying.' Bub-fudge in our house is a descriptive
adjective meaning hopeless or inefficient." [p. 5, 6.] I don't know whether
her family coined the term, but I loved it and stole it at once!

Let's see, what about a list of bub-fudge things a clarinet player can do?

1. Arrive at gig or rehearsal just in time and discover...oops, left the
mouthpiece (or the reeds or the music) at home, an hour away!

2. ...or, *both* cases contain Bb clarinets.

3. ...or, the double case contains the vintage, high-pitched pair that needs
a full overhaul.

4. While greasing the corks and assembling the clarinet, absent-mindedly put
cork grease on the best reed, too. (As a high school student at the mercy of
stage fright from hell, I actually did this. *Twice.* Both times, I didn't
realize what I'd done until I put the reed in my mouth.)

I'll bet other people can think of even worse examples of bub-fudgery.

Cheers,
Lelia

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