Klarinet Archive - Posting 000247.txt from 2004/03

From: Allen Levin <alevin@------.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] reasons for basset clarinets
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 14:52:28 -0500


>
>There is a part of our choice of musical instruments that attracts us to
>playing an instrument that occupies a particular place in the orchestral
>choir. Some like melody. Others like inner voices. And others like the
>foundation. I think that the extended length of an instrument gives me my
>foundation.
>
>Dan

Wow! I think that we all underestimate the importance of the physical
satisfaction we get from playing an instrument. And I don't just mean as a
Freudian substitute for V$agr@. - though I'm suspicious of the extended
joint analogy.