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Author: Bill
Date: 2008-07-14 19:02
I acquired Selmer M6450 (a "Model 55"). The seller bizarrely insisted on sending the clarinet to his/her "repairman" to have the loose tenon corks replaced when the instrument was covered in calcified leather pads (which neither seller nor technician sought to replace ... why the tenon corks, then?). It arrived and I left it with the others awaiting restoration.
I thought it was funny that I later had an elaborate dream about the clarinet, in which I was persuaded to try playing it (in its present condition). I did so. It made the most beautiful, the tightest and smoothest most "chocolate-like" sound I have ever heard. In the dream I was forced to concede the superior judgment of the seller and his/her tech, that the instrument in its present condition was simply perfect. Days later I can still recall the moment in my dream in which I heard the clarinet's sound. It was lovely, and certainly something to strive for in my (wakening) life.
Does anybody else out there have clarinet dreams?
Bill Fogle
Ellsworth, Maine
(formerly Washington, DC)
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2008-07-14 19:54
>>Does anybody else out there have clarinet dreams?>>
Yup--but usually, they're not about my own playing (unless they're the classic nightmares about going out on stage stark naked and playing like a pig). I had a dream recently that I'm turning into a weird tale about a fictional, early 20th century clarinet maker who blathers on and on to his customers about the necessity of becoming one with his instrument (by way of making excuses about why his creations take so long)--until he gets his wish.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2008-07-14 20:36
I have frequent night [and some day] "tussles" with some old pop tunes, often with jumps I can't hit the 1st or 2nd times thru, making a mess out of them in front of an audience of musicians, laughing. Artie Shaw's nightmare is a good example ! So I spend a bit of time trying to work out old memorized tunes to play for my retirement home "fellow inmates", they are very considerate, T G !! Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2008-07-14 21:24
Was that dark or regular chocolate? ESP
www.peabody.jhu.edu/457 (Listen to a little Mozart, live recording with a warm vanilla sound)
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Author: BobD
Date: 2008-07-14 21:36
Years ago in concert I had a key fall off of my clarinet and I had nightmares about it for years afterward.
Bob Draznik
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Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2008-07-14 22:39
I think I've had that same dream, Lelia... you don't really play that bad!
Best regards,
jnk
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Author: Bill
Date: 2008-07-14 22:59
I should add that I did play it today (as a result of my dream), and it has a surprising amount of compression, but the keywork is sluggish.
I predict it will be in South River, NJ, before too long ...
Bill Fogle
Ellsworth, Maine
(formerly Washington, DC)
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Author: LonDear
Date: 2008-07-15 01:01
I do have dreams that I'm playing clarinet, but not about a specific one. Most are where I'm playing jazz solos better than I do when I'm awake. A few are where I can't get a decent sound at all. But this thread reminded my of when I used to compose in my sleep. It has been a few years ago, back in my 20's and 30's, but I would wake up at the end of a dream with a new composition in my head, or a refinement to an existing one. I would scratch out some ideas, head to work, then work out the details of the tune over the next few days. I don't know if I've just lost the touch, or if not being allowed to have a keyboard in every room of the house anymore is the problem. (Well, I never had a keyboard in the bathrooms.)
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Author: fernan
Date: 2008-07-15 16:41
I just purchased a vintage Symphonie from the 50's...
And it has that chocolatey quality you mention. I am in love =)
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Author: Bill
Date: 2008-07-15 16:45
Good for you, Fernan! I have an old 50s Symphonie (serial number 4971). It's a good clarinet, typical of Leblanc.
Bill Fogle
Ellsworth, Maine
(formerly Washington, DC)
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Author: Nasubi77
Date: 2008-07-16 15:41
When I was a music major, I once dreamed that I was playing for a jury. I was playing scales and I was doing a chromatic scale SOOOO fast that my fingers didn't touch the clarinet and I dropped it.
It broke open, and bled out notes....I mean, literal little black dots with stems coming out all over the floor.
In my adult life, I have a recurring dream....I'm about to be in some performance, but there's always some way that I'm NOT prepared.. Either I've left my instrument, or I'm missing part of the instrument, or I don' t have reeds, or I don't have the music, or I'm terribly late, or I'm dressed in bright pink...
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Author: claritoot26
Date: 2008-07-17 13:41
I have had several performance anxiety dreams like the ones Nasubi mentioned. Sometimes getting lost in an unfamiliar performance space and not being able to find my way back to the stage before the second half. That chromatic scale dream sounds cool! so does the one about the junky clarinet sounding beautiful.
Oddly, I can't remember a dream where I'm actually playing the clarinet though.
Lori
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