Klarinet Archive - Posting 000005.txt from 2003/09

From: Kenneth Wolman <kenneth.wolman@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Ventura County Star: Peter Randell suggests you read
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 16:46:02 -0400

At 09:36 AM 9/1/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Bill Hausmann wrote:
>
> > I believe he [Artie Shaw] was a Selmer
> > player, at least at one time, although I can't
> > put my finger on the proof just now.
>
>It's not absolute proof, but:
> http://www.woodwind.org/Databases/Logs/1995/11/000203.txt

Maybe not definitive but it suggests that he probably was not troubled by
the question of "brand loyalty" as though he were some overpaid athlete
getting a gazillion dollars to wear a particular shoe. When Shaw was
active did manufacturers get players into the endorsement game at any level
or any extent? Goodman is known to have played Balanced Tone Selmers, but
I seem to recall (here??) that he switched brands later in his career. I
think someone else here once mentioned that Gigliotti began on Selmer and
migrated to Buffet...or was that the other way around?

Shaw seems an absolutely fascinating man besides being a phenomenally
gifted musician and, I gather, a writer of no small accomplishment. Then
again, I'm fascinated by people who other people might think are abrasive
pains in the butt:-).

ken

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