Klarinet Archive - Posting 000024.txt from 2003/12

From: Rick Campbell <ricksax@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Sex museum
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 13:13:33 -0500

Surely you are going to tell us that one of the strippers plays clarinet to
tie this all together.
Rick Campbell

Dan Leeson wrote:

> 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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