Klarinet Archive - Posting 000085.txt from 2002/11

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] First Squidward, now Monk
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 00:45:53 -0500

At 06:08 PM 11/1/2002 -0800, William Wright wrote:
> <><> Lelia wrote:
>but does it look as though Tony Shaloub knows how to play the clarinet,
>or is he completely faking it?
>
>If he plays, then he's doing so afterwards, during 'post production' or
>whatever it's called. For example, he changes his fingering frequently
>during the final adagio. Even if the sound track is out-of-sync with
>the visual part of the film, there's no place in the adagio that
>requires so much fingering.
>
>....and his embouchure !!! Nobody who actually plays would pose for
>the camera with an embouchure like that.
>
>(I suppose it will turn out that Shaloub is like Charro, actually a
>first rate musician who fakes ineptitude; but you sure can't prove it
>from the episode in question.)

My guess, from watching him play at his wife's grave in the episode I saw,
was that he may actually have played clarinet in junior high or high school
many years ago, but is far from current on the instrument, and may not have
been particularly good THEN. However, I think any deficiency in his
clarinet playing can be excused, since he does show considerable talent as
an ACTOR.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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