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 So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: DavidBlumberg 
Date:   2007-12-25 11:41

I got a really nice framed photo of Saxkeys with jazz sheetmusic in the background from a student.

http://www.SkypeClarinetLessons.com


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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: tictactux 2017
Date:   2007-12-25 13:59

The family got a soccer table. Only marginally musical, but hey, man doesn't live on reeds alone... :)

Oh, and I got a CD of our band's last year's winter concert and a spill-proof water bottle.

--
Ben

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: Mark G Simon 
Date:   2007-12-25 14:35

The big 22 CD box of just about the complete works of Stravinsky conducted by the composer.

The Schubert symphonies conducted by Roy Goodman.

A good sturdy Alphin double clarinet stand.

Clarinetist, composer, arranger of music for clarinet ensemble

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: ashemas 
Date:   2007-12-25 14:56

A few boxes of reeds (woohoo!!), a new metronome, and some iTunes gift cards.

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: Copland 
Date:   2007-12-25 14:59

Well, so far, I've gotten a good sturdy clarinet stand and a good sturdy music stand. Also, I got a whole bunch of reedguards.

For my birthday, which was about a week ago, I got Sibelius and a whole bunch of iTunes gift cards.

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: ASBassCl1 
Date:   2007-12-25 15:00

iTunes gift card, Michael Buble christmas CD, and a new Leblanc clarinet (yay!)

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: ohsuzan 
Date:   2007-12-25 15:03

A Roland electronic drum pad!

Susan

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: DavidBlumberg 
Date:   2007-12-25 15:12

RadioShack is/was (asof yesterday) having a sale on Itunes cards - buy 2 of the $15 cards and it only costs $25.

http://www.SkypeClarinetLessons.com


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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: GBK 
Date:   2007-12-25 15:13

I'm currently lying on the beach in Puerto Rico, smoking cigars and listening to the music of the ocean.

Does that count? [wink] ...GBK



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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: Mark Charette 
Date:   2007-12-25 15:33

My sister, brother-in-law, and nephew playing and singing in a Christmas mass.

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: Neal Raskin 
Date:   2007-12-25 15:36

A Cordier Reed Trimmer, and a nice wooden reed case.
Merry Christmas

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: EuGeneSee 
Date:   2007-12-25 16:03

Glenn, take another look under the tree . . . golly, there's gotta/orta be an R13 there . . . you need another R13!

I got a Bonade lig, Chaliapin CD, "Boris Godunov" DVD, and a thick popular & traditional songs Bb fake book. Really wanted a paper clip contra, but I guess Sandy Claws has been watching me too closely. Rats!

Eu

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: johng 2017
Date:   2007-12-25 16:25

I got a nice, long review from Joseph Messenger in the December issue of The Clarinet!

John Gibson, Founder of JB Linear Music, www.music4woodwinds.com

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: hartt 
Date:   2007-12-25 16:46

Vintage A
Bonade workbook
complete set of Orchestral studies
Hindemith Rhythm book
2 box of reeds

guess I was a really, really good boy [happy]

happy holidays

dennis

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: jmsa 
Date:   2007-12-25 17:30

I got a new embouchure.

jmsa

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: OmarHo 
Date:   2007-12-25 17:42

Wow, a lot of people got lots of cool gifts...my parents aren't very knowledgeable of clarinet things, never mind classical music. So if I asked them for a Hindemith Rhythm book they'd be like "a Hinde moth?".

But anyway, I got a Hercules music stand with these neat flexible rubber wires that keeps your music stuck to the stand.

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: DavidBlumberg 
Date:   2007-12-25 18:09

JB Linear music IS really good. I use many of his duets for teaching, sightreading, etc - great stuff.

http://www.SkypeClarinetLessons.com


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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: Alphie 
Date:   2007-12-25 18:19

Six days in our country house without the clarinet.

Glenn, you should stop smoking [cool]

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: Carol Dutcher 
Date:   2007-12-25 18:21

A Peavey solo amplifier which I can actually carry. I can use it at our New Year's Eve gig.

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: SavvyClarinet 
Date:   2007-12-25 18:24

I got lots and lots of music and a clarinet music box. :-) Not to mention reeds, more reeds, and reed cases.

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: Tobin 
Date:   2007-12-25 18:36

Hey Omar, that situation sounds pretty familiar to me!

My family is clueless as far musical things are concerned...so I had to fend for myself:

Zoom H2

Greg Smith wooden mouthpieces on the way...

James

Gnothi Seauton

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: Roger Aldridge 
Date:   2007-12-25 19:12

2 new Grabner (k11e and K14e) mouthpieces

A number of The Doctor's products....Christmas gifts to my horns

And, as a last minute Christmas find on ebay, a Holton metal clarinet. This will be fun to explore.

Roger

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: GBK 
Date:   2007-12-25 22:02

Alphie wrote:

> Glenn, you should stop smoking



ONCE a year only, as a celebration while on vacation.

Cuban cigars only, when possible [wink] ...GBK



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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: blazian 
Date:   2007-12-25 22:55

A Rovner MkIII for my eefer from my sis! =Þ

- Martin

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: David Spiegelthal 2017
Date:   2007-12-26 02:36

A new white shirt to wear with my old tux.

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: armadillo 
Date:   2007-12-26 02:46

None! - I have already bought all the clarinet accessories and music I want (for now anyway...)

buffet R13, VD M30, V12 #3, VD Klassik (perf. & reh)/Rovner leather(practice)

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: pewd 
Date:   2007-12-26 02:50

IPOD; but it doesn't seem to include a clarinet fingering chart ;)

- Paul Dods
Dallas, Texas

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: bahamutofskycon 
Date:   2007-12-26 02:57

Marine Corps band "Emblems" CD (with Persichetti and Hindemith)
Eric Clapton "Crossroads 2007" DVD
Led-Zeppelin re-release of "The Song Remains the Same" DVD

Steve

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: Jesse 
Date:   2007-12-26 04:38

I had requested either an e-flat soprano or an e-flat alto clarinet for Christmas, and to my surprise I got both. Gave them a few run-throughs today. The e-flat soprano is a Laval (not preferred apparently, but it is a gift and I still like it) and the alto is a Bundy. I've played b-flat soprano for 8 years so both instruments are proving to be an adjustment, especially the alto which I keep squawking on, but they are still enjoyable.

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: bob49t 
Date:   2007-12-26 10:59

OK I got a Leona Lewis CD...... great new discovery of a singer (UK X factor winner last year)....... look out for Leon, this year's winner and a fellow Scot.

Didn't get anything clarinet orientated, but I did venture for the first time, into producing my own classical music based Christmas Cards. Newbie sketches on parchment type card. Seemed to work out well and quite classy really for me. They were initially for my musical pals but it seemed to expand to other parts of the address book fairly quickly. Might produce them for our Orchestra this year, or at least the wind section.

Ha! I've had more +ve feedback for this new venture, than my playing this year. Some of my music colleagues have even asked me to supply them for next year! Hey ho .....and I've been practising bl**** clarinet for 40 odd years..... makes you wonder eh?

Season's Greetings from Brechin, Scotland, which at the moment (midday Boxing Day), is bathed in sunshine between the showers.

Bob T

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: BobD 
Date:   2007-12-26 16:28

Me too, the Crossroads 2007....dig Tal Wilkenfield....

Bob Draznik

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: davyd 
Date:   2007-12-26 18:03

-- a clarinet t-shirt by CafePress.com

-- Long-overdue maintenance on my Bb clarinet and bari sax

-- "Birth of the cool" CD

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: MichaelR 
Date:   2007-12-26 18:10

A Korg TM-40. Now I can watch my intonation during long tones and have a "gentle" reminder for counting.

Inspired to ask for it from a thread here.

--
Michael of Portland, OR
Be Appropriate and Follow Your Curiosity

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: Bill 
Date:   2007-12-26 18:46

Yeah I can't believe Glenn didn't get another circa 1950s-1960s R13. I got no musical gifts, so I need to give one to myself. I have six unrestored clarinets and one of them goes to Vytas Krass before long.

-Bill.
P.S. Which one would you restore?

1. Boosey & Hawkes 1010. Still has original tan leather pads. I suspect has never been worked on since original purchase (1972?). Playable now but sounds bad (leakage). No damage/trauma.

2. E. Albert "simple system" clarinet (13 keys). Not playable now. No serial number. No cracks/trauma. All original parts. Rosewood?

3. Hawkes & Son "Excelsior Sonorous Class" simple system clarinet (12 keys). Serial number 2962. All original parts (even the wood mouthpiece and barrel have the serial number stamped on them!). Excellent physical condition (but not playable now).

4. Acoustical evaluation and trouble-shooting of Marigaux/SML clarinet. I would say it almost needs to be "tuned" like a piano, if that were possible. Something isn't right with it.

5. Basic (semi-)overhaul of Buffet 21634 (1936). Plays well now but needs attention (lay of keywork is poor).

6. Buffet 714H (1894). Good physical condition. Barrel is part of top joint (not separate).

Bill Fogle
Ellsworth, Maine
(formerly Washington, DC)


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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: EEBaum 
Date:   2007-12-26 19:10

The works for 9 music boxes, unmounted (i.e. so I can screw them to whatever I like as sounding boards). Very cool to hold them up to different objects and see what they sound like.

-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: susieray 
Date:   2007-12-26 22:11

Bill,

I'd vote for restoring the Boosey 1010!

Sue



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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: Chris P 
Date:   2007-12-27 07:18

A Roberts digital radio and a Philips portable DVD player for me (perfect for long coach journeys), and loads and loads and loads of chocolate!

Though I did treat myself to a couple of saxes (Yamaha 32 alto and tenor for marches) as an early Crimbo prezzie to myself.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010

The opinions I express are my own.

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: Hank Lehrer 
Date:   2007-12-27 10:45

Hi,

I did not get anything musical but I was able to provide my two grand daughters with NOS Ridenour 147s for Christmas. Both girls are in the same school program (where I was the HS band director for many years) and had trusty Bundys to start with in October; they are doing well and even provided a little holiday concert on Christmas morning for us all.

And they thought they were just getting new cases! Ho, ho, ho.

HRL

PS I gave them a quick lesson in the kitchen (long tones, tonguing, airstream, and hand position). Would Portnoy MPs and Harrison ligatures be too "over the top" for their birthdays this summer? I've already planted the seed about being doublers.

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: Lelia Loban 2017
Date:   2007-12-27 13:04

blazian wrote,
>>You are what you eat... So what happens if you eat a principal clarinetist?
>>

Life without the possibility of parole.

Cue "A Little Priest" from SWEENEY TODD....

My Jewish husband and I enjoyed our usual cooperative supper on the 25th with our Pagan friends who also don't celebrate Christmas. One of these friends plays violin. She and my husband played Mozart duets for an hour before and an hour after dinner--a musical gift for listening spouses!

Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
To hear the audio, click on the "Scorch Plug-In" box above the score.

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: JJAlbrecht 
Date:   2007-12-27 14:55

My boss gave me an iTunes card... so I guess I will have to get an iPod or something!

My daughter, on the other hand, got a number of boxes of reeds as stocking stuffers. She asked everyone for contributions to her A-clarinet fund. When she got to 50% of the cost of the A, my wife and I were going to kick in the other 50%. She hit 50% of the price of an R13 A with silver plated keys this week, so I guess we will be heading to Chicago soon to look at clarinets. :) Her teacher is an insistent member of the Buffet Mafia, so I guess she will have an R13 A to match the R13 Bb (my old 1971 horn) that I gave her two Christmases ago.

Next, we'll have to save up for a nice eefer for her!

Her boyfriend, the drummer/ composer, got a new copy of Sibellius for Christmas/birthday from his parents (he 's a New Year's Eve kid.) I got him a Beethoven action figure as a gag gift for Christmas, and gave her a matching Mozart.

Jeff

“Everyone discovers their own way of destroying themselves, and some people choose the clarinet.” Kalman Opperman, 1919-2010

"A drummer is a musician's best friend."


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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: DavidBlumberg 
Date:   2007-12-27 15:27

If you just download the program you can purchase tracks with your gift card and then burn them to a CD - then you can convert them to whatever format (non-ipod) that you wish to.

Just an option - Ipods are really great though

http://www.SkypeClarinetLessons.com


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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: hans 
Date:   2007-12-27 16:01

A Chuck Hedges CD (it was ordered late and hasn't arrived yet though).

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: Cass Tech 
Date:   2007-12-27 16:35

As a recent convert to Satan worship, I didn't celebrate Christmas, Hannukah or Quanza, but did participate in an inspiring midnight Black Mass in which I conducted a symphonic band of nude female fellow-worshippers in Hindemith's Symphony, Schoenberg's Theme and Variations and a transcription of Strauss' Til. Afterwards, we dined on hummingbird's tongues, champagne and chocolate mousse, and engaged in a bachanalian orgy. Finally, we exchanged gifts. I got a St. Bernard puppy whose cask contains an infinite supply of Absolut Citron.

Cass Tech (aka leatherlip)

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: EuGeneSee 
Date:   2007-12-27 18:15

CT (LL): Would I be a bit too forward were I to hint for an invitation to your next party? Eu

P.S. I got a beautifully repaired wooden mouthpiece from der Spiegelthal. His building up of about 1/4" missing off the tip and then refacing it is a primo Christmas gift!!

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: Cass Tech 
Date:   2007-12-27 19:53

EuGeneSee:
Sure, Eugene, but first you have to sign this contract for the sale of a soul with his satanic majesty, Beelzebub. An alternative to signing is to play the Corigliano (needless to say, I had to sign).

Cass Tech (aka leatherlip)

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: EuGeneSee 
Date:   2007-12-27 20:03

Oh, dear! All is lost! Alas, I had to sell my soul to get the CPA license! Eu

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: Bill G 
Date:   2007-12-28 00:48

1. Simple system clarinet with two interesting features: Middle joint taped together with duct tape, and left Ab/Eb key (which I have never before seen on a simple system!}

2. New M15 mouthpiece

3. Twenty-six familiy members playing Christmas songs on kazoos!

Bill G

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: musiq 
Date:   2007-12-28 02:44

new set of clarinets :-)

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: bill28099 
Date:   2007-12-28 15:18

A Tom Ridenour basset clarinet

A great teacher gives you answers to questions
you don't even know you should ask.

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: Morrigan 
Date:   2007-12-28 16:24

No clarinet-related gifts. Just how I like it.

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: Mike Johnson 
Date:   2007-12-28 16:30

I got a new Legere #3 Quebec cut reed and a clarinet repair kit. My 5 kids ended up with lots of musical stuff...cornet, bagpipes, cello, guitar amp, electronic drum pad, natural (french) horn, xylophone. Needless to say, it is VERY LOUD at my house right now...

Mike Johnson
Napa, California

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: EuGeneSee 
Date:   2007-12-28 16:34

Oh, almost forget . . . I had a GAS attack and bought myself a clarinet from susieray.

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: clarinets1 
Date:   2007-12-28 17:22

my family is also clueless, but i did get some CDs i asked for, namely Let It Be by the Beatles and Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd.

i got several gift cards to bookstores too, so i got the latest Elton John biography.

fa la la la laaaaa

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: DavidBlumberg 
Date:   2007-12-28 17:25

Oh yeah, got a bunch of Hard Rock Store T-shirts which I wear almost daily and collect from all over the world.

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: Katelyn 
Date:   2007-12-28 18:35

iTunes gift card, and I asked for some "fun" music from my parents...you know, just some Gershwin or even folk songs or similar to mess with when I get frustrated with all the technical stuff I'm doing.

So they get me Technique books and chromatic stuff. *sigh* They try, they try. I guess I should have specified. They are trumpet players, after all. :)



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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: Mike S. 
Date:   2007-12-29 15:07

A) an Etude(Kooiman) thumbrest for my LeBlanc clarinet
B) a hand guide thingy for my flute
C) a double case for my flute and piccolo
D) a cheap but well working oboe (Artley)

-Mike
Recorders(SSAT), piccolo/flute/alto flute, oboe, clarinets(Eb/Bb/bass), saxophones(SATB)

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: susieray 
Date:   2007-12-29 16:03

From my husband, a gift certificate good for one round trip airfare
to Kansas City MO this summer for ClarinetFest 2008. And from
my kids, several very nice oak poster frames for my music room
so I can start hanging up all those free posters I've picked
up at clarinet conferences!

[happy]

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: Bill 
Date:   2007-12-29 17:48

That was a cool gift from your hubby susireray!

Bill.

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: D 
Date:   2007-12-30 13:33

Bill
regarding which to restore - the simple system 12 key. I'm drooling as - I type! green with envy over any interesting clarinets.

I got a red pencil in the shape of a treble clef, some slide-o-mix and a trombone snake

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: Clari9801SC 
Date:   2007-12-31 16:48

Nice to see other mass people on here. I got to help with our children's Christmas pagent. I also got the joy of playing my clarinet again. I had a root canal a couple of years ago so needless to say, I couldn't play for a while. I wanted to get a keyboard so I could teach myself to play but maybe for my b.day.

"And in our living and in our dying and in our growing up that's the way we were" Thornton Wilder, Our Town

"If music be the food of love, play on" Shakespeare

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: Selmer'53 
Date:   2008-01-01 17:20

A major overhaul by Guy Chadash of a Selmer "Manhattan" vintage hard rubber Bb (better than anything of the kind new out there, for my money) ...and a perfect (and I mean "never seen the light of day" perfect!) 1957 Reynolds Emperor cornet. Also, reservation for a Napbirt band inst. tech. clinic here in NY in late Jan.
Been a good Christmas ;)

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: diz 
Date:   2008-01-03 02:23

I got a hideous pencil shaped like a treble clef ... nasty

Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: D 
Date:   2008-01-03 04:23

your relatives clearly shop at the same place as mine.

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: Bassie 
Date:   2008-01-03 09:07

- Cool keyring in the shape of a clarinet bell, made of grenadilla. (Not sure what pitch it plays in. Lowest note is probably around E7. Hope to collect the other bits of the instrument and give it a go ;-D)

- A new pull-through! (What you tryin' to say? You mean I'm supposed to /wash/ the old one? :-D)

- Something called a 'reedvitalizer'... any good? Anyone? Maybe I'll do a search on this site.

- and a recork. There's only so many Xmas gigs you can do on PTFE tape, even the good stuff.

*

Trouble with reeds for Xmas is... well... it's not /likely/ to be a surprise, is it? :-)

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: dgclarinet 
Date:   2008-01-03 12:16

I bought my own musical present this year. I picked up a Buffet Eb on Ebay and sent it to John Butler in Texas, who transformed it into a thing of beauty. I got it back yesterday, but I'm still calling it my Christmas present, and I plan on thanking myself profusely.

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: Chris P 
Date:   2008-01-03 15:25

My e-sax whisper mute (for alto sax) was delivered yesterday, so now I can actually do some practice (steady on!) at any volume, well into the wee small hours!

I wonder if there'll be making anything similar for oboe/clarinet (or cor anglais)?

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010

The opinions I express are my own.

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: DavidBlumberg 
Date:   2008-01-03 16:00

"Something called a 'reedvitalizer'... any good? Anyone? Maybe I'll do a search on this site."
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What % of Humidity did you get? (says it on the white insert pack). Make sure that it isn't already crystalized as sometimes if one has sat for a long time at a music store it can do that. Only works when it isn't crystally.

http://www.SkypeClarinetLessons.com


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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: William Hughes 2017
Date:   2008-01-04 15:18

Purchased for myself: a contra-alto gig bag!

Received this yesterday. It is black canvas with a lined, padded interior and one large outside pocket. It has both carrying handles and a shoulder strap. It is designed for the Selmer Bundy/Buescher/Vito one piece plastic contras and carries the instrument with the bell on.

I am so looking forward to not having to lug around that heavy wooden case (which has too much "stuff" in it anyway), although the gig bag will only be for times where I have complete control over the instrument and its handling.

If anyone is interested, I will provide the contact information for the supplier. I understand bass and alto bags are also available and all are reasonably priced.

Happy New Year!



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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: coasten1 
Date:   2008-01-04 15:47

I bought myself a Korg TM-40 metronome/tuner combo. It fits in my case! The metronome can increment by 1 or 4 bpm. There are ticks for time signatures 1 to 7 beats per measure and there are mutiple subdivisions up to 16th notes per beat. It was only $32. It is pretty nice for a portable version.

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: robertgh 
Date:   2008-01-04 17:20

1. CDs: one of Robert Simpson's 6th & 7th symphonies and one of motets by Copland (!) and Durufle with Vaughan Williams Mass in G

2. Excellent book, The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross--highly readable survey of 20th Cent. music

3. Mystery mail arriving late from Sheet Music Plus that promptly disappeared into wife's secret stash-away, perhaps to re-appear at Valentine's Day?

4. Dumb luck pairing of Gonzales FOF 2.75 and modified Bonade inverted lig. on an M13 Profile 88. Sound carried well in damp air of large, filled church Christmas Eve!

Health, wealth and happiness in the New Year to everyone here,

Bob H.

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: bahamutofskycon 
Date:   2008-01-04 18:50

Bob H. -

I got the Ross book "The Rest is Noise" for my b-day in November. I'm almost done with it. I highly recommend it also; a great read.

Steve

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: Bassie 
Date:   2008-01-05 10:42

David -

58% (the lowest). What do you mean, 'crystally'?... hard to tell inside that little packet.

*

I noticed this morning how I've always carried some Vandoren Blue around with me as a standby. I guess Vandoren is for life, not just for Christmas?... (groan)

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: DavidBlumberg 
Date:   2008-01-05 11:03

Ok, most likely that level is pretty low during this dry time of the year. Crystally means that you will feel a lot of crystals just when you touch the packet. If it feels supple than it is fine. Once it's used up then it will get hard.

I'd suggest the 73 % packet for this time of year and possibly the 58% for a humid summer.

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: MSK 
Date:   2008-01-05 22:25

Finale Printmusic & a computer mic. Bought myself an MP3 player with a Best Buy giftcard.



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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: JJAlbrecht 
Date:   2008-01-05 22:35

Well, I ordered a new R13 A from Walter Grabner today for my daughter as a belated gift. We should have the shipment later this week.  :)

Jeff

“Everyone discovers their own way of destroying themselves, and some people choose the clarinet.” Kalman Opperman, 1919-2010

"A drummer is a musician's best friend."


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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: Chris P 
Date:   2008-01-05 22:44

A sore lip, that's what I got.

This sax mute has made me do something I've rarely done for the past 18 years - practice alto sax at home and playing at a volume I'd never have done before being that I've only lived in terraced houses and flats.

I've only been getting all my playing done at rehearsals and on gigs, and never actually doing any practice at home on sax, so this E-sax mute is definitely worth it (even if it does feel a bit confined).

And that's 8 hours practice I've put in over the last three days, so now I'm really feeling it! I hope my poor lip will hold out tomorrow (and I'll be on clarinet), if not, it'll have to be the off-centre embouchure for me.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010

The opinions I express are my own.

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: MC 
Date:   2008-01-09 23:57

A Blackberry (with task alarms set to remind myself to practice), a Mac with Finale (so I can compose some fun stuff to practice), and an iPod (so I can hear what I might sound like if I ever get around to practicing). Nothing like a new crop of electronic gadgetry to keep you from practicing!

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: davidsampson 
Date:   2008-01-10 01:02

A stand for my bass.
Symphonic Repertoire for Bass Clarinet, vol. 1
Walter Grabner bass mouthpiece (the Lawrie Bloom model)
Avenue Q, and Spamalot on CD
Money, with which I am considering buy a very nice pair of headphones or PC speakers, but I am open to ideas.

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: D Dow 
Date:   2008-01-10 01:06

Complete Mahler symphonies with Chailly and the Concertgebouw Orkest Amsterdam...an unbelielably musically done cycle with an incredible performance of 10 as well. The clarinets are superb throughout..

David Dow

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 Re: So what cool musical gifts did you get?
Author: JJAlbrecht 
Date:   2008-01-10 02:35

Well, I guess I got myself something late, afterall. I picked up a Muncy 65 mm Bb barrel from Walter Grabner.  :)

Jeff

“Everyone discovers their own way of destroying themselves, and some people choose the clarinet.” Kalman Opperman, 1919-2010

"A drummer is a musician's best friend."


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