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Klarinet Archive - Posting 000006.txt from 2003/09

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Ventura County Star: Peter Randell suggests you read
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 17:41:58 -0400

At 04:46 PM 9/1/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>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?

There was some endorsement activity, and I know Selmer would supply Goodman
with as many clarinets as he wanted. He could even give them away, if he
chose. Yet you see pictures of him playing with clarinets with obviously
repaired upper joints (banded) so I guess he knew what he liked.

At one point in his later career he seemed to have switched to Buffet for a
while, but he was a major endorser of Selmer at least into the Series 9
era, contemporary ads clearly show.

On the Selmer Series 10G, the "G" stands for Gigliotti.

>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:-).

It is said that Shaw functioned at "genius" level in SEVERAL fields. It
was his downfall in one way, since it really annoyed and bored him to play
the same pieces over and over. Since audiences never tire of the big hits,
and in fact DEMAND them again and again, it made it impossible for him to
reconcile his artistic drive with commercial reality.

Apparently he always WAS an "abrasive pain in the butt," though. Just ask
any of his wives!

Bill Hausmann

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

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