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Re: Left handed clarinet

Author: Dan1937
Date: 2004-04-16 11:59

About 40 years ago, Rosario Mazzeo told the following story (not sure about all the details, but the substance is accurate):

While walking down a street in Pittsburgh, he looked in the front window of Volkwein's, where a strange clarinet caught his eye. He realized it was built as a mirror image of a standard Boehm clarinet. Because he collected clarinets, he went inside and asked if he could buy it. The clerk asked him if he wanted to try SEVERAL and pick out the best one! As it turned out, they had been made in an isolated village in Europe (where they didn't have access to conventional clarinets), and all of their clarinetists played the "reversed" model!

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Left handed clarinet

Alastair Hanson

2004-04-15 20:59