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 Re: how/where did you acquire your first clarinet
Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date:   2008-01-16 12:59

My first clarinet (yes, we did have to watch out for saber-toothed tigers on our way home from school) was a 1957 grenadilla Conn Director that my father bought new in San Francisco. He bought it because, like me, he's a contrarian, and he bristled at the way the band director pimped for the Bundy and the local store that sold it. (Scandal ensued: It turned out the director was taking a kickback from that store. He nearly got fired, which would have been a shame, because, somewhat corkscrewed in the ethics department or not, he was an excellent teacher!)

I might've been better off with the Bundy everybody else's parents bought, because, although my clarinet was objectively better (a "step-up" model at the time), it had completely different tuning issues from the other kids' Bundies. I've kept the Conn, for sentimental reasons, but it's really a pretty bad clarinet and I never play it any more. It's a testimony to the excellence of white first-aid tape circa 1957, however, because the tape is in like-new condition! What tape? Well, I used to carry my clarinet to school by hanging it by the handle over the left steering bar of my bicycle. I used the tape to bandage the case where my bicycle horn rubbed a hole in the two-toned, green and white plastic cover as I pedalled along and the case swung to and fro.

Lelia
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