Klarinet Archive - Posting 000488.txt from 2002/11

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Monk plays clarinet tonight on ABC
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:55:16 -0500

At 10:09 PM 11/11/2002 -0500, LeliaLoban wrote:
>Did anyone else think that clarinet looked like a marriage? I could have
>sworn the bell and barrel didn't match the sections. The sections looked
>shinier to me. The script made a point about the clarinet being "rosewood,"
>but I thought the sections looked like plastic. I wonder if the script
>called the wood "rosewood" because the writers knew too much, in a way--knew
>that grenadilla's related to rosewood and figured the word "grenadilla" would
>only confuse the majority of the audience that presumably wouldn't know?

What bothered me is that the clarinet did not in any way LOOK like
rosewood, and thus should not have attracted Monk's attention in the first
place. The clarinet had "jump"-style keys like a Leblanc product, but it
was most certainly NOT a Symphonie VII, which has standard-type trill keys
anyway.

>That timeslip when the brand-new, untouched-by-human-lips mouthpiece
>mysteriously acquired the reed was odd enough that I think I would have
>noticed it even if someone hadn't mentioned it after the first broadcast.

The probably figured (and correctly, too) that Monk fumbling with his
mouthpiece and reed, given his character, would have taken up the entire
rest of the episode. And would only have been interesting to us fellow
anal-retentives.

Bill Hausmann

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

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