Klarinet Archive - Posting 000406.txt from 2003/01

From: "Rebecca Brennan" <rjbrennan1221@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Bill's case of cat excess.
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:48:58 -0500

I wish I had friends to get together with and play for hours, but I don't.
Anyway, good story. I had the oppertunity to play klesmer once, but I am not
driving an hour away to make an idiot of myself. I plan to go next time
though. I keep promising myself I will learn how.

-Rebecca

>From: jim lande & Joyce Mason <lande@-----.com>
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: [kl] Re: Bill's case of cat excess.
>Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 23:27:40 -0800
>
>"Bill Semple" <wsemple@-----.com> wrote: >>Right about cats being unable to
>play the
>clarinet. In fact, one evening I kept my clarinet case open on the floor,
>and the
>next morning I discovered that one of my wife's cats, who was on his way
>to his
>21st year, had used it as a litter box.
>
>On the BBS, we talked about how long cigarette smoke stayed in cases and
>even pads.
>How long did you case (and clarinet) smell like, um, whatever it shouldn't
>have
>smelled like.
>
> Speaking of cats, I was a jam last night. Seven other folks showed up
>with an
>average of two cases each -- guitars, violins, mandolins, concertina,
>banjo, etc.
>Two cats live there and both stayed for 4 hours of music. One spent the
>whole night
>within a few feet of me, snoozing for a while in each case he could get
>into. The
>other cat moved around the room (occasionally raiding the cheeze dip).
>Neither took
>any notice of my clarinets, even when I played into the altissimo on my
>eefer.
> My cats are more critical. I once opened a case and didn't even get
>the horn
>out before one of the cats fled into the room my wife was vacuming. I want
>to
>invite a bagpiper friend to set up in the other end of the house and have a
>third
>person check the relative distances from the cats to the players. (We may
>not be
>able to define a 'dark tone' but at least we could formulate a
>bagpipe/clarinet cat
>repellent scale.) However, my wife won't let me. I leave this for other
>investigators.
>
>jim
>
>
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