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Author: wjk
Date: 2003-04-05 00:00
There is so much time
We spend in our car
Driving to destinations
Near and far
Has it occurred to anyone
in any province or state
to order a clarinetist "vanity plate?"
(anyone have clarinetist or musician "vanity plates?")
Post Edited (2003-04-05 01:01)
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2003-04-05 01:24
on my personal license plate I should probably get a simple, but yet descriptive of my style, "SQUEEEAK" (we're allowed 8 letters in my good 'ol state).
I know what you mean though. I'm sure that somewhere there's a license plate cover or frame or something that has a clarinet on it. I've seen "music" ones in general. I'll do a search and see what I come up with . . .
Alexi
Bass Clarinet frame
US Army Japan Band
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Author: Ralph G
Date: 2003-04-05 01:35
It's so obvious.
K622
________________
Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
- Pope John Paul II
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Author: John J. Moses
Date: 2003-04-05 01:56
My former student, currently playing in the pit at "Beauty and the Beast," has a NY plate:
Clar/Sax
Very clever idea,
JJM
Légère Artist
Clark W. Fobes Artist
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Author: PJ
Date: 2003-04-05 02:24
I've often thought of getting one that says "B FLAT." I like the K622 the best though. My state has a musician's tag in which half of the annual fee is donated to the music/arts programs in public schools. I proudly display one of these!
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Author: R13A
Date: 2003-04-05 03:42
yepper, it is neat to see some of teh 'vanity' plates.
over the yrs, I've had EEFER1 and SopSax.
one of the neatest I've ever seen was here in town, the fellow is a Urological Doctor. His plate: SEEME2P
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2003-04-05 13:19
Great creativity re: "inside joke" ?advertising? ! I proudly "sport" a chrome license plate frame saying "70 Years of Woodwinds" provided by #1 son [in CA], to include oboe and sax, I guess, not much flute, buffoon, no Fr Horn. Every now and then, someone comments on it! Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: Dan1937
Date: 2003-04-05 16:45
My (Virginia) plate is "MUZIQUE." We're allowed 7 characters.
![[grin]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie5.gif)
--Dan
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Author: vin
Date: 2003-04-05 20:46
I was in the garage of Lincoln Center a few years ago and I saw a car (Audi, Benz, BWM I forget which) with the license plate "CLARINET1" (or so I recall). It's got to belong to one of those guys from New York.
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2003-04-05 21:52
If I remember correctly, from my days at Northwestern, and driving by Larry Combs' house, he has the K622 for Illinois...
At least we figured that's where he lived in Evanston, given the car with that license plate!
For a while now, I've been considering what I'd get on a vanity plate...and it would depend on the number of letters allowed...
I'd probably go with something like "FOLKCL" or something..
But the other day at my local music store where I teach there was a LEXUS with "SAXOFON" plates...go figure!!!
Katrina
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Author: William
Date: 2003-04-05 22:38
Although the clarinet is my main instrument, my University of Wisconsin Alumni plate reads GR8 SAX.
(they wouldn't let me have GUD SAX--"Too suggestive")
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Author: Donn
Date: 2003-04-05 23:07
Saw a plate a while back that said "ISUE4U". His occupation?
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Author: jim lande
Date: 2003-04-05 23:21
Am I the only one too limited to figure out K622? (It is not the number of some klarinet concerto, right?) Some help for the slow of wit, please.
If they gave us 8 letters in VA I would think about getting 'SILVABET' (naturally). Since they don't, I am thinking 'DNTMOBL' which describes the car pretty well.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2003-04-06 15:56
One of my cars has "KLARINET" (we're allowed 8 characters)
I couldn't get "CLARINET" (already was taken)....GBK
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Author: Ralph G
Date: 2003-04-06 18:27
Jim,
Ludwig von Koechel published a catalog of Mozart's works in 1862, attempting to number them in chronological order. Each known work is preceded with a K. The Clarinet Concerto is K622.
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Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
- Pope John Paul II
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Author: GBK
Date: 2003-04-06 19:15
...and Koechel's numbering system has been a major headache to musicologists ever since...GBK
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Author: Terry Horlick
Date: 2003-04-06 20:04
sorry... see attempt at humor below. Posting images on this new forum format is a challenge!
TH
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Author: Terry Horlick
Date: 2003-04-06 20:07
Shouldn't a clarinetists plate be something along these lines?
[Upload next time, don't embed the image. That way, if the image gets deleted or moved on your server it'll still be available here. Mark C.]
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Author: clarinetmama
Date: 2003-04-07 00:33
Not a music plate on my Jeep Liberty...
4JULY76
I can't tell you how many times I have had to explain it to people. No, it is not my birthday, it is however the United States' birthday.
I thought I was being rather obvious with that one, apparently not. Or perhaps Americans have no sense of their own history. Most Canadians I have met figure it out however. And if it was my birthday I either look damn good for being 227 years old, or really bad for 27 (being a number of years older than that.) And really, who the heck would put their birthday on a license?
Jean
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Author: Jim
Date: 2003-04-07 00:55
>Not a music plate on my Jeep Liberty...
>4JULY76
I got it right away Jean.
But I am old enough to remember that. 
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Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2003-04-07 16:23
Espouse obfuscation.
My sailboat, before it went to my brother-in-law and he re-named it, was K581 (Mozart Clarinet Quintet).
Eleanor Armstrong, the flute professor at Penn State, is 8VA.
A plate I could never quite figure out was IM1RU12. One what?
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Author: Todd W.
Date: 2003-04-07 16:42
I read somewhere that Lawrence Welk's (Pete Fountain got a big career boost playing on his television show) California vanity plate was:
A1ANA2
Todd W.
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Author: Joseph Brenner, Jr.
Date: 2003-04-07 17:17
My Tennessee plate is "KV581." I tired of our state's too frequent issuing of plates and my inability to remember each set of letters and numbers. So I pay extra each year and will never forget what I drilled into my developing brain. 46 years later I still know the association with the quintet in A...as well as other labels for Mozart's works. jbjr
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Author: GBK
Date: 2003-04-07 18:22
"...For those in the Buffet mafia how 'bout "R13..."
According to the DMV, "R13" (in NY) is already taken, but "R13CLAR" is still available.
Go for it...GBK
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Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2003-04-07 19:46
Here are some more good ones for youse guys with too much time on their hands:
http://members.shaw.ca/vseward/lplates_pers_1.html
http://members.shaw.ca/vseward/lplates_pers_2.html
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Square/1521/9vanity.html
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/misc/newplates.html
http://www.zuko.com/Vanity_Plates_2001.htm
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Author: Matt Locker
Date: 2003-04-07 20:20
Not clarinet related but my favorite vanity plate seen here in VT:
PB4UGO
MOO,
Matt
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