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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2008-04-19 11:43
For a short story partially set in the USA in 1916-1917, I need to make sure that neither of these two names connects in any way with the real world of clarinet players and manufacturers:
Charles Henredon (clarinet maker and technician)
Arthur Tregallis (principal clarinet in a large orchestra)
I'm writing a slipstream story with a supernatural element and I need to be sure I'm not inadvertently dragging real clarinet people into it. The names both seem so familiar to me that I'm afraid my memory may have played a trick and "borrowed" real people, though the names don't turn up in the Klarinet list archives except in a brief quotation that I posted (from the rough draft) last month, before real life rudely interrupted the writing. If Tregallis and Henredon are or were real, then I figure this crowd should know, if anybody does!
Google turns up no musicians with those names. I think I've figured out why "Arthur Tregallis" seems familiar: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle named a character "Janet Tregallis" in his Sherlock Holmes story, "The Musgrave Ritual." It's possible the name "Henredon" results from my having seen and forgotten something about the furniture company (an association with manufacturing).
Thanx for any help!
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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Post Edited (2008-04-19 11:50)
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2008-04-19 12:04
I just happen to have ancestors with those names. I thus have the exclusive right to use them, and you will hear from my lawyer in the morning. In fact, you used them seven times, so you already owe me $7,000. ![[tongue]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie6.gif)
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2008-04-20 11:36
Oh no! Busted! The shame of it--outing Ken's ancestors as...clarinet players!
But seriously, that's exactly the kind of letter writers can get for real if we're not careful, and for these two characters in particular, I'm being careful, because one of them, the clarinet-playing hero of the story, is gay (or, to use the only non-insulting word available to English-speaking gay people of his own early 20th century generation, Uranian), while the other disappears in a bizarre way that could be interpreted as suicide.
Fwiw, I think I've figured out why the name Arthur Tregallis seems familiar and even where a trick of memory may have found it: I'm a Sherlock Holmes fanatic. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Musgrave Ritual" includes a character named Janet Tregallis. Dunno about Charles Henredon, unless I'd seen and forgotten a furniture store ad!
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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