Klarinet Archive - Posting 000178.txt from 2004/07

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] bumblebee
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 17:06:45 -0400

At 09:35 AM 7/5/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>Unfortunately I don't have any of the recordings of the old
>Goldman band conducted by the father. I do have one conducted by
>the son but it was never the same after the old man died. Jimmie
>Burke still played in it, doing the Carnival of Venice variations
>so fast that it blinded one in its speed. Burke had only one
>usable arm, the other having been a withered stump since
>childhood. You might think that this would not affect a trumpted
>player but it did because he could never work the spit valve
>properly. His was a specially made instrument that enabled a one
>armed man to play it and operate the spit valve.

Wingy Manone was another one-armed trumpet player, although more of a jazz
man. He did have enough use of his other arm to hold the horn. His good
arm was the LEFT, but reaching over the bell flare did not seem to slow him
down much (Perversely, Fluegelhorn players have to do that all the time!).

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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