Klarinet Archive - Posting 001094.txt from 1997/09

From: SDM@-----. Morrow)
Subj: Re: My first clarinet...names
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 01:48:18 -0400

> Do you think it is wrong to change the name of an instrument... I
>didn't christen it yet, and I want to change the name of my Buffet R-13
>from Buffy to Mary, in honor of my Grandmother ( now in a nursing home
>with alzheimers) who bought it for me.
>
>Matt

Matt,
With slight variation, you could call it "Buffy Sainte-Marie" and
satisfy both! (Although you'll have to use a LOT more vibrato and only play
in the upper register!) :-)

-Scott (I apologise: this joke was even dated for ME!)

Scott D. Morrow
Department of Biochemistry
School of Hygiene and Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
(410) 955-3631

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