Klarinet Archive - Posting 000330.txt from 2006/04

From: Wayne Thompson <wthompson222@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Arnold Brilhart
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 20:04:39 -0400

The discussion about setups reminded me of the time I
met Arnold Brilhart. It was probably about 94 or 95,
and I wasn't actively playing. I'm one these people
that put my clarinet away for about 25 years as I
raised a family. One Sunday I was the 'greeter' at a
little Unitarian Fellowship in Vista, California.
This very old, very tall visitor came up and signed
the guest book. I didn't know anything then about who
Arnold Brilhart was, but I recognized the name as a
line of mouthpieces. I asked him about it, and for
about 5 minutes he talked about being in New York and
making mouthpieces for Benny Goodman and others in
those earliest days. The service started and the chat
ended. The regretful end of this is that I kicked
around the idea of calling him up and asking for more
stories. He seemed like someone who would have liked
that. But I didn't, and sometime after I heard that
he had died.

Wayne Thompson

Here's a cute article he wrote: <http://www.dornpub.com/SaxjPDF/arnold.pdf>.

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