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Author: GBK
Date: 2014-10-04 00:16
Ken Shaw wrote:
> In browsing the NY Phil. archives, I found a sympathetic portrait of
> Simeon Bellison, with a good view of his Bb
Love the cigars in the clarinet case
All the archive photos are terrific. Nice find ... Thanks
...GBK
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2014-10-04 06:54
The sausage-looking thing under his left-hand fingers looks like a swab to me.
The cardboard box with the rubber band says ...Cigars/ACTS... but he's holding 3 reeds, so he may have used the box for that. Too bad Kal Opperman is gone. He was a Bellison student.
Ken Shaw
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Author: GBK
Date: 2014-10-04 07:05
What?
No $75 humidity controlled, charcoal cartridge, hermetically sealed reed case?
How could he ever be assured of a great reed?
Color me shocked.
...GBK
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Author: BobD
Date: 2014-10-04 17:07
I'm thinking that my old Lazarus book had a photo of him. For many years I thought his first name was Simon.
Bob Draznik
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Author: Dan Oberlin ★2017
Date: 2014-10-04 18:50
Looks like he might be on a train. Wonder why he has his clarinet out.
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2014-10-04 21:11
Dan -
The photo is obviously posed, with the case open, the Bb displayed and him looking at two or maybe three reeds fanned out between his left thumb and index finger.
I agree that it's on a train, maybe to Boston or Philadelphia. I remember those seats well. The cars operated in either direction, and the seat backs could be pushed to the other side to make them always forward-facing. The seat back behind Bellison is in the opposite position, which permitted a 4-seat cluster for conversation or cards.
Ken Shaw
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