Klarinet Archive - Posting 000026.txt from 2006/09

From: "Scott Morrow" <scottdmorrow@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: Left Handed BG
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:57:17 -0400

Perhaps THAT was the origin of the picture on the cover of the video for
"The Benny Goodman Story" that we all assumed was just printed backwards?
-Scott Morrow
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> > Speaking of left handed reed instruments. Benny Goodman was
>obviously
> > good on his right-handed Selmer clarinet back in the 30s and 40s but he
> > was also a master of his beloved specially built left handed Remles
> > clarinet. This is illustrated definitely in the famous Al Hirschfeld
> > cartoon of Benny on the cover of Rachel's booklet AN EVENING IN MEMORY
>OF
> > BENNY GOODMAN, and also in perfect detail in a photograph on page 15 of
> > the SWING, SWING, SWING booklet accompanying the Yale University CDs
> > Volumes 1 - 5.
> >
> > I also saw Benny playing left handed in Tacoma, Washington in 1940,
> > although his back was to the audience. Every time he played right
> > handed he turned around and faced us.
> >
> > Bob Newman

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