Klarinet Archive - Posting 000065.txt from 2009/10

From: Mark Thiel <mark.thiel@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] New A clarinet from Patricola
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:25:17 -0400


Dan wrote:
>
>I have told my story about Manny's music store on 48th street in NY severa=
l
>times=2C but it is worth telling again.
>
>A young boy came into Manny's with his father to buy a clarinet. He said =
he
>wanted one that had a "nice dark sound."
>
>The salesman picked one out saying that its sound was like the grave=2C as
>dark as night. It was like playing while wearing a shroud. Blah=2C blah=2C=
blah.
>
>The kid tried and eventually chose not to buy it. Nothing lost. The kid
>couldn't play anyway. Father and son left the store and went elsewhere.
>
>Within 10 minutes another young student came in asking for a clarinet with=
a
>bright sound. The same salesman took the same clarinet out and told the
>student that its sound was as bright as the sun at midday. "You need to pl=
ay
>this instrument with sunglasses on=2C" said the salesman. The student was=
so
>impressed=2C that he bought the instrument.
>
>Dan Leeson

that's a lovely story=2C Dan -- and the moral ?? Well since kid one didn't=
buy=20
the horn=2C I would interpret the story as meaning that it _was_ a really=
bright=20
clarinet and that all parties involved had a clear conception of this and o=
f the concept
of clarinet darkness and brightness. Kid one and his dad knew that the
salesman was lying and passed on it.

Mark (ever-eager-to-help-with -a-little-gasoline-on-the-flames) Thiel
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