Klarinet Archive - Posting 000246.txt from 2004/03

From: "Steve White" <bass.clarinet@------.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] How I got started on the clarinet
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 13:53:51 -0500

Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved...I know, I know, I
hate cliché's too.

Steve White
Whittier, CA

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Parks [mailto:tim.parks@------.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 11:00 AM
To: klarinet@------.org
Subject: Re: [kl] How I got started on the clarinet

How I picked clarinet

We had the "famous" band assembly where the local music store try's to sell
all their old stock. All the parents were there and prospective students. A
short demonstration was conducted of each instrument. I heard the
clarinet....I need say no more I was in love and like Rebecca I soon got
married to a Conn Director. Parents were happy since it was cheap compared
to the other instruments. The band instructor was happy since everybody was
getting trumpets and Saxophones. and I was in love.
The marriage lasted all through highschool (1973). Then ended. Ya know how
it happens 1st USMC, Human wife, college, children.The USMC and college
passed quickly. Children are now semi-detached(college), still have the same
human wife.
I tried to rekindle my love affair with the Conn after 30 years, But
alas it was not to be so. The Conn made a valiant attempt but due to
cheapkeyitus soon broke a key. I am searching for a new mate and am in a
temporary affair with a Vito.We really don't get along very well so I guess
it more a relationship build on necessity. I can't even say that it is a
physical relationship It is no character, you might even say that it is
plastic.
I really envy Rebecca and her Alto.I would ask if the Alto had a sister
but, judging from Rebecca's age, I suppose the Alto's sister would be too
young. Is it proper it ask about the Alto's mother or is that tacky?????.
I will just keep looking. A couple good souls from the Klarinet list are
trying to act as match-makers and I commend their endeavors.

Tim P

-----
> 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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