Klarinet Archive - Posting 000065.txt from 2010/02

From: Martin Baxter <martinbaxter1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] financial assistance
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:52:56 -0500

The "pipe" of "Pipe & Tabor" is played one handed-the other hand plays the drum. Hobgoblin music might have more information.
Martin
On 9 Feb 2010, at 19:30, Daniel Stover wrote:

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> Hello to the list. I'm not sure if I will have any luck in this endeavor, but I thought if anywhere would be a good place to start, some of the lists I'm a member of would be the best places, with the broad knowledge and range of careers everyone is in.
> Also, with the number of similar lists to which I belong, I hope I did not already post this query to Klarinet so this is not a repeat.
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> In July 2008, I suffered a severe hemrrhagic stroke which has left me unable to use my left hand/arm at all. In early 2009 I found a group headed by a saxophone professor in a similar situation as myself founded to try to get adapted instruments into the
> hands of disabled musician like me. the goups is called the One-handed winds project(onehandwinds.unk.edu)
> This saxophone rofessor helped develope a mechanism to allow the sax to be played with only the right hand. unfortunately, there are, to my knowledge, only two such instruments in existence.; the one he plays and one on loan to a saxophone student mentioned
> on the project's page. Last Spring, the founder was kind enough to let me try a modified recorder by Marten Visser. after a month of struggling with the mechanism and fingering chart, I was unable to even playsimple scales with any accuracy and returned the
> instrument before my year-long rental contract began. In contacting him again to see if there had ben ay progress in making more saxophones available, He informed me that the builder gave him an estimate of $40,000 to build another. In contacting the builder myself to see what the bare minimum to get work started, if I were to donate my alto sax to be converted, he told me it would be about $15,000 to do all the work needed to convert an instrument to the one-handed mechanism, and that the $40,000 estimate was a prototyping estimate for applying the mechanism to another instrument.
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> I'm curious if anyone knows of any grants or organisations devoted to helping disabled musicians or persons with disabilities that would be able to help with the cost of having my saxophone converted to the one-handed mechanism.
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> Any and all help is greatly appreciated
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> Daniel Stover
> Houston, TX
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