Klarinet Archive - Posting 000242.txt from 2004/03

From: Andy Raibeck <klari_1@------.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] How I got started on the clarinet
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 13:14:47 -0500

Interesting story. I changed the subject line in case "how I got started on
clarinet" would yield some interesting stories.

When I was in elementary school, probably 4th grade or so, we had a school
assembly where the different musical instruments were shown to us, and we were
encouraged to start playing. I liked the clarinet. Why? Because I liked the
sound? Well, I had no idea what it sounded like, and knew even less about
music. No, the reason I liked the clarinet was that it came apart in so many
pieces, and I thought it would be neat to put it together.

Well, my mother wouldn't let me play. I forget the reason why, but it was
probaably something along the lines of she didn't think I had any talent, or
that I wouldn't stick with it. Finally, in 7th grade, she let me try it, and
that's how I got started.

Unfortunately I put it down after high school (1980 -- and to think I was
almost a music major at the Hartt College of Music!), and didn't pick it up
again for 22 years. And I've been making up for lost time since.

Andy

--- Rebecca Brennan <u_cant_kill_the_rooster@------.com> wrote:
> Nancy,
>
> You should know that I am a nice girl. I am sure everybody here knows that I
> am a nice girl. Let me tell you the story of how I fell in love with the
> clarinet and how the alto clarinet kept me off the streets of downtown
> Logan, West Virginia (big scary city!).
>
> Once upon a time there was a girl named Rebecca and she wanted to join the
> band. She wanted to play saxophone, but her mother forced her to play
> clarinet (only good thing she did, eh?). She hated the sqeuak stick and
> wanted to quit, but her mother would not let her. Then she discovered the
> alto clarinet. Rebecca, being a naive and innovative girl, decided that she
> was going to play this alto clarinet, but wasn't allowed to until she was in
> the 8th grade. She was probably allowed because she was the worst
> clarinetist in the band and could not count the music. She along with two
> other rejects were forced on alto clarinet, but this is what Rebecca wanted.
> She then realized that these other two girls couldn't count the parts and
> never would, so Rebecca decided to do it herself. Then she fell in love and
> took that damn thing home everyday and played it in band happily for three
> years and developed some talent for the instrument making all-state band and
> all that jazz.
>
> Then she took her alto clarinet, which she owns, to music camp and her
> teacher talked her away for it and she returned to the Bb clarinet.
>
> I can bet that if I would have never switched to alto clarinet, I would have
> never learned to count and would have continued to be the worst in band. I
> probably would have quit, but thanks to the alto clarinet, I am driving all
> of 'yall nuts.
>
> -Rebecca, a loving child.
>
>
> >From: Nancy Buckman <eefer@------.net>
> >Reply-To: klarinet@------.org
> >To: klarinet@------.org
> >Subject: RE: [kl] Announcement...Dont Amend Protest
> >Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 21:28:39 -0500
> >
> >At 07:49 PM 3/3/2004, you wrote:
> >>Why would you want to marry one of those things?
> >>
> >>~Ginger
> >
> >
> >Now Rebecca, be nice. Remember she doesn't know you.
> >
> >Nancy
> >
> >Nancy Buckman
> >Principal Clarinet / Orchestra AACC
> >eefer@------.net
> >
> >
> >
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