Klarinet Archive - Posting 000177.txt from 2006/02

From: Kelly J. White <cealleach@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Sad news
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:26:10 -0500

I had the fortunate opportunity to meet Nick while in graduate school
in Britain. I was able to spend some time studying some clarinets in
his extraordinary collection and am very grateful to have had that
opportunity. He a very knowledgeable and interesting man and was
generous with me in terms of access to his collection.

His passing is a loss to the music world.
- Kelly White

On Feb 13, 2006, at 5:58 PM, danyel wrote:

> Yes, even though I did not have the chance to meet Sir Nick in person,
> I
> tune in saying this is indeed a great loss. He was the man who really
> knew
> about early clarinets.
> Sadly, I have two lengthy e-mails I wrote to him lately after he had
> written
> to me off list commenting on the Ottensteiner C-Clarinet recently
> auctioned,
> that bounced back. I didn't even know he was ill.
> What a shame.
>
> danyel
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Keith" <bowenk@-----.com>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 10:47 PM
> Subject: RE: [kl] Sad news
>
>
>> This is a sad blow indeed. I knew Nick a little through the Royal
>> Society,
>> and I spent a marvelous day with him in his clarinet collection in
>> Cambridge, playing instruments from 1780 onwards. A lovely man, he was
> kind
>> and generous with his time and his experience, and his knowledge - of
>> his
>> second subject - was truly prodigious. The Guardian obituary sums him
>> up
>> well.
>>
>> The last time I heard from him, he was hopeful that new drugs would be
>> effective against his cancer, but obviously it was not to be.
>>
>> The worlds of science and music have suffered a great loss.
>>
>> RIP Nick.
>>
>> Keith Bowen
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: klarinet-return-86255-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org
>> [mailto:klarinet-return-86255-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org] On
> Behalf
>> Of Joseph Wakeling
>> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 7:14 PM
>> To: klarinet
>> Subject: [kl] Sad news
>>
>>
>> I just came across the following in the Guardian's obituaries:
>> Professor Sir Nickolas Shackleton
>> <http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1708225,00.html>
>>
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