Klarinet Archive - Posting 000029.txt from 2006/10

From: "Keith Bowen" <bowenk@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] A rainbow of clarinets
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:48:39 -0400

Dan

In your well-known obsession with "dark tone", which of course can only be
achieved with a black clarinet, you may have neglected the special acoustic
properties of other colors. Blue tone is of course used by jazz specialists,
green tone by the English pastoral school and red tone by unreconstructed
Communists. Have you never heard of Chairman Mao's Little Red Clarinet? It
was an eefer, which accompanied recitations from the eponymous Book.

Our basset horns are brown tone. I speculate that this must have been
Mozart's favorite color.

Keith Bowen

-----Original Message-----
From: klarinet-return-88842-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org
[mailto:klarinet-return-88842-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org] On Behalf
Of dnleeson
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 5:13 PM
To: klarinet@-----. org
Subject: [kl] A rainbow of clarinets

Looking through ebay today, I came across clarinets in blue, red,
black (of course), green, and goodness knows what else. I had no
idea that they were being made in this rainbow of colors. The
price was trivial with shipment from China. I can't say that
they are junk because I've never seen one up close but I wondered
what a clarinet choir would look like (not "sound" like) with
everyone having a different color clarinet.

Just a small journey into fanciful things!

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

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