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Author: jez
Date: 2003-12-18 12:53
Sorry if this is a bit off-topic, but I can't resist telling all my friends out there that, despite my advancing years and previous attempts, I'm getting married (again) in a few days time.
The bride-to-be is also a (very fine) clarinet player, so we look forward to many happy hours discussing reeds, ligatures etc. (actually she does request this occasionally, when she has trouble getting to sleep)
Wish us luck!
jez
PS how many other contributors here share their lives with another clarinet player?
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Author: justwannaplay
Date: 2003-12-18 13:07
CONGRATULATIONS! And may you have many happy years playing the clarinet together! ![[toast]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smiley15.gif)
Elizabeth
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Author: jo.clarinet
Date: 2003-12-18 13:56
And congratulations from me too! I hope you'll both be very happy!
Joanna Brown
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2003-12-18 14:03
So is there a future poster of "Mrs. Jez" coming to the board now!? I'm so excited!
Congratulations! A big step and I hope you both are very happy!
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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Author: William
Date: 2003-12-18 14:17
Best Wishes from me as well. May you become a perfectly matched set and play as one even during the most difficult tunes.
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Author: Rick Williams
Date: 2003-12-18 14:25
So who plays first chair and who plays second? It's these kinds of little issues which should be discussed before marriage you know....BG!
Congrats and many happy years!
RW
Best
Rick
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Author: Ralph G
Date: 2003-12-18 14:27
Congratulations. Do you both play the same make, or is it a future fraught with "Buffet v. Leblanc"-type disagreements?
Oh, and my wife doesn't read or play a note. Knowing my desire to have my "own thing" in my life, this is a good thing.
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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
Post Edited (2003-12-18 14:28)
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2003-12-18 14:39
Ralph G wrote:
> Congratulations. Do you both play the same make, or is it a
> future fraught with "Buffet v. Leblanc"-type disagreements?
lol. Oh man. I was DYING to put something in my post about different brnad clarinets or mouthpieces but refrained for some reason. Thanks for busting it out Ralph!
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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Author: Bob A
Date: 2003-12-18 14:39
Congratulations from a happily 57th year married geezer. Rick was wrong when he said :
"So who plays first chair and who plays second? It's these kinds of little issues which should be discussed before marriage you know....BG"
No! The REALLY important things are:
1. Should the toilet lid be left up or down, and
2. What way the toilet paper gets put up--over the top or down under.
Anything else is just anything else.
Bob A
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Author: clarinetwife
Date: 2003-12-18 14:44
All the best, jez! I am married to a clarinetist, and it is great. I don't think all that many of us on this BB have clarinet playing spouses.
Ralph G-- In our case neither of us plays Buffet. We do play different makes, though, Leblanc vs Selmer. It doesn't seem to add any particular discord to the household, though!
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Author: Henry
Date: 2003-12-18 14:58
Great! Many years of happiness, jez!
By the way, how did you propose? By playing "Besame Mucho" (ala Artie Shaw) to her?
Henry
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Author: FrankM
Date: 2003-12-18 16:08
I met my wife in our college band....I sat next to her...she played Eb but I married her anyway. Congrats!
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2003-12-18 16:13
FrankM wrote:
> I met my wife in our college band....I sat next to her...she
> played Eb but I married her anyway. Congrats!
Touché!
US Army Japan Band
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2003-12-18 16:52
Congratulations jez!
I've been married to a recorder player practically forever. I've kissed a couple of clarinetists, but chapped lips on both sides didn't seem to work ;-)
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Author: GBK
Date: 2003-12-18 18:20
Congratulations on a long a happy life together. Will we be seeing any little Eb clarinets in the future?
However, knowing how clarinetists are, you may think of putting your favorite mouthpiece into the pre-nuptual agreement ![[wink]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie3.gif) ....GBK (happily married to a violinist - as never the two worlds meet)
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Author: diz
Date: 2003-12-18 20:26
Jez ... congratulations ... wishing you many years of harmonious interaction.
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Author: hans
Date: 2003-12-18 20:44
Jez,
William Shakespeare said it well: "If music be the food of love, play on".
Best wishes,
Hans
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Author: Liquorice
Date: 2003-12-18 22:20
Congratulations!
There's a wonderful duet for 2 clarinets by Gordon Lewin called "Views of the Blues". Play it often, but don't experience it in your marriage!
Are you having any clarinet wedding music?
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Author: Rick Williams
Date: 2003-12-18 23:25
"Congratulations from a happily 57th year married geezer. Rick was wrong when he said :
"So who plays first chair and who plays second? It's these kinds of little issues which should be discussed before marriage you know....BG"
No! The REALLY important things are:
1. Should the toilet lid be left up or down, and
2. What way the toilet paper gets put up--over the top or down under.
Anything else is just anything else.
Bob A"
I beg to diasagree. The toilet seat issue is a non issue. First, nowhere in the Constitution, Bible or any other reference I can find do women have a right of domain on toilet seats. Plus anyone silly enough to sit before looking, well deserves to get wet.
Second all of civalized society knows the correct answer to the toilet paper issue..goes without saying...g
Best from a 26 year married, working on becoming a geezer!
Rick
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2003-12-19 04:47
Congrats Jez!
And how's the Balkan music appreciation going? Playing much of it lately? And how'd the "extra trill" Berlioz end up?
For what it's worth, I just divorced a tuba player but it had more to do with his poker playing and lack of a job...
Katrina
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Author: JamesE
Date: 2003-12-19 06:15
jez
Best wishes for your new adventure. I've been at it for 45 yrs and couldn't live without it (even though my wife plays the alto sax!).
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Author: Brenda
Date: 2003-12-19 11:22
Let me add my congratulations! You'll have an important aspect of your lives in common. Now if you're able to chat about clarinetting over the kitchen sink or while cooking supper together, then you've got it made.
I've married a non-player who loves music. When we met I made the mistake of singing - that sealed my destiny. He loves some of the impressive movie music that's coming out recently. He understands when our kids and I have an extensive discussion over music, even my son's bass guitar improvisation. My husband and I don't discuss reeds, only the cost of them.
It sounds like you're so proud of your fiance. I wish you well!
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Author: Percy
Date: 2003-12-20 17:24
I used to sit next to my wife in the local orchestra and have been married for 25 long years. Now I sit next to you. How spooky is that.
Have a nice day Jez.
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Author: clarinetmama
Date: 2003-12-22 13:53
I always wished I had married a pianist so that I would have an accompanist whenever I needed one.
When you play duets do you ask, "Do you want to be on the top or the bottom?"
Jean
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Author: diz
Date: 2003-12-22 21:01
Jean!!! that's outrageous (maybe I've got a twisted mind?).
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Author: Henry
Date: 2003-12-22 21:04
Diz...What's outrageous about it? Wouldn't you ask the same thing as a considerate (and flexible) partner?
Henry
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Author: Ralph G
Date: 2003-12-22 21:20
Gosh, you make it sound like "top" and "bottom" are the only options. What about trios?
--Ralph (who is talking strictly in the "musical" sense)
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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: graham
Date: 2003-12-23 08:47
Many congrats and best wishes for the future. Does she also play Oehler as well as Boehm? Or perhaps she plays Mazzeo instead(?) I thought you needed a basset horn to woo another clarinet player......
My former wife did not play clarinet and neither does my current "other half". In your case I imagine you "met her at work" which I recently read is how more than half modern relationships start.
Good stuff.
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