Klarinet Archive - Posting 000255.txt from 2006/01

From: "Rommel John (Rafi Jochanan) Miller" <rjmiller@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mozart's Birthday
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 14:59:15 -0500

Oy gevalt!

It's shabbos! And we're talking about swooning the chics? Anyway, it ain't
the instrument that gets the girl its how the musician plays it.

Sort of like it ain't the size of the boat, but the motion of the ocean if
you get my gist.

Moxy in playing also has a lot to do with whether or not a musician gets a
goirl. And clarinetists can be among the biggest hams out there in wild and
crazy playing stlyes.
But so too can Saxophonists.

Its all a matter of personality mixed with playing ability, you've either
got it or you ain't. For some playing can bring out a side of them they
never knew was there, for others its just an extension of their everyday
self. That's the beauty of music, not only do we discovery beauty in the
music we study and play, but we discover something about ourselves in the
process.

What if Mozart's dad hadn't been a musician? What might've the world missed
out on then? Just think of what wonderful happen-stances of fate mixed
with genetics have occured throughout history to produce people like Mozart,
George Gershwin and this boy wonder Julian Bliss. What a fabulous
intermingling of events must've conspired to bring about just the right set
of circumstances to allow those three, and countless others to have been
born and to have graced our world and ears.

So the deal is, don't envy the guy who gets the girls becasue he plays so
well, some guys are just chic magnets. Be happy with what you are and with
the great gift of music you have, and use that gift to its fullest, becasue
where you might not score with a girl, you might brighten a lonely person,
or a depressed person, or an old person's day, and that means more in the
big picture than gratifying your own base instinct.

Just some thoughts from a philosopher/clarinetist who digs ethics and
responsibilty to the Other as paramount in this world.

B"H

Raphael Jochanan ben Avraham Miller308 Dale Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21206
410-668-4784
410-967-8994 (cell)
rjmiller@-----.net

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend,
inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
---"Groucho" Marx

----- Original Message -----
From: <bowenk@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 1:43 PM
Subject: RE: [kl] Mozart's Birthday

> Dan lies in his teeth. I have the twin of Dan's basset horn and find a
> distinct lack of women swooning at my feet. It is Dan's sex appeal wot
does
> it! And this is not for sale on ebay!
>
> Keith Bowen
>
> (trying to keep the price down so's I can buy the twin ....)
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> Original Message:
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> From: dnleeson dnleeson@-----.net
> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 10:24:23 -0800
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] Mozart's Birthday
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> And I take liberties with all those women who have swooned at my
> feet!! As I said in an earlier note, that instrumet goes up for
> sale next summer, and anyone who buys it also gets to take
> liberties with swooned women!!
>
> Dan Leeson
> DNLeeson@-----.net
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ormondtoby Montoya [mailto:o4rmondtoby@-----.net]
> Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 10:15 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Mozart's Birthday
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>
> Ken Henderson wrote:
>
> > STEPHEN FOX, BASSET HORN
> > and a discussion with one of the players who
> > is a builder. [...] I thought some on the list
> > might be acquainted with these accomplished
> > players.
>
> Steve is well-known to many of us, he has a booth at one or more
> of the
> clarinet festivals each year, and he used to post here on
> Klarinet until
> he got too busy with his clarinet business. He builds custom
> instruments of high quality, including Dan Leeson's bassett with
> the
> beautiful wood and gold plated keywork (the mere sight of which
> causes
> women to swoon at Dan's feet), and Steve is also known for his
> reproductions of period instruments. In addition to his musical
> skills, Steve is a kind-hearted and sociable person.
>
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