Author: salzo
Date: 2010-06-26 00:01
About ten years ago I was visiting with an in law, whose daughter just started taking clarinet lessons. Wouldnt it be great if Uncle Salzo gave her a lesson. So she starts playing, squawking away, and I take a look at her instrument to see if the sounds she is producing are the result of something screwed up on her horn. She has a chedeville sitting on top of her clarinet. So I tell her dad that in the right hands this could be a great mouthpiece, that a lot of clarinetist would love to have this, and blah blah blah. I told him to put it away and get another mouthpiece for his daughter to use. He told me how it was his horn when he was a kid, and his dad went to the store and bought the chedeville because he broke the one that was there originally. I was kind of hoping he would say "do you want it", but it never came.
I see him once or twice a year, I ask him how is the chedeville doing, he laughs, says that he put it away. The girl quit the clarinet about a month after she started.
I am seeing him on the 4th. I WANT THIS MOUTHPIECE!! How do I convince him that sentimentality is absurd, and the mouthpiece should be played, PLAYED!
I am prepared to offer him $100 and a mouthpiece to replace it-but he doesnt need the money, and I dont know if money is the best tact to go with an in law.
So how would you handle this?
An in law that you see once or twice a year, MAYBE you converse with him for five minutes, who has a mouthpiece sitting in a drawer somewhere, who is reluctant to let it go because his father bought it for him when he was a kid.
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