Klarinet Archive - Posting 000155.txt from 2011/05

From: Fred <vze2bsbs@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Wind Instruments and Respiratory Infections
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 10:50:50 -0400

I dropped it on my foot once.

Fred

At 10:45 AM 5/26/2011, you wrote:
>Nancy;
>I am an amateur musician and a professional pulmonary physician. I
>tend to discount anything I read in the NYT for beginners. There is
>no body of information in our professional literature to support
>your instrument being a health menace to you. GAPMDFCCP
>
>From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
>To: klarinet@-----.com
>Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 5:22 AM
>Subject: Re: [kl] Wind Instruments and Respiratory Infections
>
>On 05/25/2011 07:41 PM, Nancy Buckman wrote:
> > OK...sorry sick musicians...if you haven't learned after the
> second time you
> > played your instrument that you have to keep it clean, then you have earned
> > your illnesses. The New York Times is NOT reporting anything that a REAL
> > musician doesn't already know. And woodwinds...wash your swabs...every
> > day! Sheesh!!!
>
>Is this really an issue of instrument hygiene, or more to do with the
>amount of boozing, partying and shagging around that musicians get up
>to? (Yes, I know. What happens at band camp ... stays at band camp.)
>
>Classical musicians -- you KNOW you are not exempt here ... :-)
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