Klarinet Archive - Posting 000325.txt from 2009/01

From: Glenn Kantor <klarinet@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] In-Dog-uration
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:33:08 -0500

Let's not forget:

John Quincy Adams - played flute
Chester Arthur - played banjo
Woodrow Wilson -played violin

other political figures:

Patrick Henry - violin and flute
Condoleeza Rice - concert pianist
Elizabeth Dole - piano
Tipper Gore - drums
Alan Greenspan - saxophone, clarinet (briefly attended Juilliard)
Ross Perot - accordian

Glenn B Kantor (GBK)

----- Original Message -----
From: <kurtheisig@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] In-Dog-uration

> Bill Clinton played a fair country bar room tenor.
>
> Norm Panetta is a piano player.
>
> Dick Nixom played piano.
>
> "Give em Hell" Harry Truman played decent? popular piano.
>
> George Washington played violin.
>
> Thomas Jefferson played violin.
>
> Ben Franklin played vioin. He also invented the glass armonica.
>
> Two major composers wrote for it. Can anyone name those composers?
>
> Kurt
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Bear Woodson <bearwoodson@-----.net>
>>Sent: Jan 23, 2009 12:17 PM
>>To: Klarinet List <klarinet@-----.org>
>>Subject: [kl] In-Dog-uration
>>
>>> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:06:17 +0100
>>> To: "klarinetlijst" <klarinet@-----.org>
>>> From: "rien stein" <rstein@-----.nl>
>>> Subject: Hello
>>> Message-ID: <00A4EDB72020425DB3887A94D930194C@rienstein>
>>>
>>> Hello
>>> After a long time of absence I am back on the list
>>> again. . . . I don't want to start a political discussion
>>> on this list, but first of all I want to congratulate our
>>> USA fellow listers with the inauguration of Barak
>>> Obama. Let's hope and pray he will be able to fulfill
>>> at least half of the hopes he raised in their hearts.
>>
>> I turned 18, and voted for a US President for my first
>>time, way back in 1972, resulting in Richard Nixon, who
>>had to Resign, rather than be Impeached and possibly get
>>sent to prison. Every President since then had greatly
>>disappointed me, and the Strangle Hold by the
>>Corporations on our progressively Corrupt Politicians
>>has led to the problems that we have today. I've learned
>>to hope for the best, but believe nothing that they promise,
>>and to expect worse corruption, more lies and broken
>>promises.
>>
>> With that caveat in mind, my greatest, and least
>>controversial, hope is to see how the Presidential
>>In-Dog-uration turns out: when they pick the Presidential
>>Puppy. That's when we will all get to see what species,
>>gender and color the First Dog will be, and if the charming
>>First Daughters will be able to tolerate it, in spite of a
>>history of Allergy problems.
>>
>> However I seriously doubt that the Premier Pooch will
>>be able to master the necessary embouchure to play the
>>clarinet. Does anyone know if any member of the New
>>First Family has a background in music, and if so, on
>>which instruments?
>>
>>
>> Bear Woodson
>> Tucson, Arizona, USA
>>
>>Home: 520 - 881 - 2558
>>"Bear Woodson" <bearwoodson@-----.net>
>>
>>
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