Klarinet Archive - Posting 000060.txt from 2011/05

From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Poor View of the Clarinet ?
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 12:25:47 -0400

"Michael Bryant (TT)" <michaelbryant@-----.net> wrote
> Can anyone please tell us who said or wrote, in any language,
> something like: "the clarinet, even Brahms could do nothing with it."

I assume we've all seen the definition of "clarionet" from Ambrose
Bierce's 1911 "The Devil's Dictionary":

Clarionet (noun): An instrument of torture operated by a person with
cotton in his ears. There are two instruments that are worse than a
clarionet -- two clarionets.

--
Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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