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Re: The clarinet in literature

Author: Hank Lehrer
Date: 2020-07-30 01:25

Hello Dan,

The clarionet may be similar to the one that Jack Brymer talked about on pages 11-14 in his auto-biography "From Where I Sit." He says (and I paraphrase):

"The Clarionet was a piece of furniture, because it lived at the back of the sideboard. It was an odd ancient instrument, fully fifty years old, and included only the 13 basic keys. It had a battered and bitten wooden mouthpiece, a tinny and fractured ligature, no rollers, and a reed of chipped and discolored cane which to my recollection was never replaced."

HRL

PS I really enjoyed reading this almost 200 page book about Brymer's musical journey from the clarionet to that of principal clarinet in many of the UK's top orchestras.

Post Edited (2020-07-30 05:36)

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