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Klarinet Archive - Posting 000021.txt from 2003/12

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Sex museum
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 13:03:31 -0500

Now that I have your attention, let me talk about an interesting article
in the paper today about a study of the sound character produced by
Stradivarius violins.

According to the latest poop, the issue of varishes and/or time are less
important that the wood because all the Strads were made from trees
harvested at a period that allowed certain environmental factors to
influence the wood through cold winters and cool summers. Wood taken
from periods where this phenomenon did not occur are said to be of
poorer quality.

None of this has to do with clarinets of course, because the body of the
violin is part of the sound production process, which is not the case to
that degree with the clarinet. It is the player's body that make the
equivalent contribution, and that brings up the matter of sex.

Is there a sex museum somehwere? There is a stripper's museum in the
Mohave desert which I pass when I drive to Barstow, California (which is
right next to Hinckley, CA made famous in the movie "Erin Brokovich."
Last year I spent $82,543 on entrance fees to the stripper museum, and
each year there is a stripper's contest in which the now 137 year old
Tempest Strom still particpates. She drives me mad!!
--
Dan Leeson
leeson0@-----.net

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