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 Re: how/where did you acquire your first clarinet
Author: weberfan 
Date:   2008-01-16 22:48



Couldn't resist this question. Like some others who have replied, I started out with a rented one-piece metal instrument, in fourth grade. That would be 1957. Group lessons were in the boiler room of my elementary school. I played for one year and gave up, fearing I'd never get the hang of it. (Who even knew the pipes were wrapped with asbestos?) But I always regretted not sticking with it.

So in my 20's I found a very good teacher and, bought, for $75, a used Vito Reso-Tone clarinet. The seller was Pee Wee Erwin, the swing band trumpeter, who happened to own a small music store outside New York City. Delightful man. Heard him play at Michael's Pub after that, and he sat at our table and regaled us with stories of tours past between each of three sets.

But in my 20's, life got busier. Again, I lasted for a year. Again, I regretted my decision to stop playing.

But that was then. This is now. In my 50's I've found I can actually devote the time to the music and the instrument. I have found another great teacher, a former pupil of Stanley Hasty's, and I now have a reconditioned, but mechanically quirky, Selmer Signet (plastic). It's not what my teacher would have chosen for me when I started lessons two-and-a-half months ago. But it's clear that I'm in this for the long haul now, and I hope that by the end of the year I'll be playing on something better.

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