Klarinet Archive - Posting 000130.txt from 2005/07

From: "Lelia Loban" <lelialoban@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Sex, Drugs and Glottal Openings.
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 06:59:49 -0400


Jim Lande wrote,
>Apparently the size (and shape?) of the glottal
>opening changes tone. I hope that Tony Pay will
>post pictures of his throat. Then I'll find an oral
>surgeon. Every doctor who looks down my throat
>immediately asks what I am feeding the tonsils.
>How, they ask, did I ever escape from the 1950s
>without having them removed? Apparently I will
>have plenty to work with.

LOL! Having heard Jim play, I think I should start feeding my tonsils,
too, just in case they've got something to do with the excellence of his
blues improv. Yeah, I also escaped the 1950s with tonsils intact, but I
don't think they're doing their share.

But seriously, I also want to apologize for overreacting in my comment re.
generalizations about oboe players. Although Tony Pay was right that I
intended my response as humor, it was angry humor. I read the Klarinet
digest just after I'd heard about the terrorist bombings in London. I was
upset for reasons that had nothing to do with Klarinet and I should have
let that message sit and cool off before I posted anything. Although none
of the oboists I've known have matched the stereotypes (except the one
where they're totally obsessional about their reeds--that one's not a
stereotype; it's just a fact!), normally I don't care that much about
oboist jokes. After all, I've been known to tell a brasshole joke or four.

Lelia Loban

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