Klarinet Archive - Posting 000717.txt from 2003/04

From: "Bruce McGarvey" <infodev@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] NOT history of clarinet
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:40:53 -0400

My apologies to the list. I was objecting to the tone and language of the
post, but that seems to have gotten lost.

Richard, you're right.

No more from me on this subject, I promise.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Bush [mailto:rbushidioglot@-----.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 2:45 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] NOT history of clarinet
>
>
> I think that a "balance" is in order. I don't propose that ALL comments
> need be serious and I qualified my thoughts when I said, "There is
> always room for some off topic comments..." After all, we are our own
> little community and we do care for each other. It is very nice to have
> a place to go and people to go to whom you know with show some empathy.
>
> On Friday, April 18, 2003, at 09:51 AM, Bruce McGarvey wrote:
>
> > <snip>
> >> ...inane banter and childish twaddle ...idiotic things like floor
> > hamsters!
> > <snip>
> >
> > I can't, of course, speak for anyone else, but when this list becomes
> > full
> > of nothing but "serious" things, I'll unsubscribe.
> >
> > Not all of us want to talk, eat, breathe, and think about THE CLARINET
> > all
> > the time. Not all of us consider THE CLARINET the most important thing
> > in
> > our lives.
> >
> > Maybe there are a few here who are so obsessed with the instrument that
> > "idiotic things," "childish twaddle," and "inane banter," take precious
> > seconds away from their practice and serious pursuit clarinet
> > scholarship
> > and the lofty truths of clarinet playing. But I, for one, consider the
> > clarinet an enhancement to my life, not the reason for it, and I enjoy
> > a
> > little banter here.
> >
> > I hope, as you mature and you gain a more worldly perspective, you
> > will cut
> > the less-intense people here a bit more slack...and learn to be less
> > insulting, too.
> >
> > Bruce McGarvey
>
>
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