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Re: Why did you choose to play Clarinet?

Author: NOLA Ken
Date: 2018-12-21 02:17

Upon entering the school band in 7th Grade, I wanted to play tenor sax. The band director, for reasons unknown to me, wanted me to play bassoon. (I do remember him looking at my overbite.) We compromised on clarinet. The die was cast.

I later got hooked on Pete Fountain, Benny Goodman, and Artie Shaw.

I didn't get my hands on a saxophone until they gave me a bari sax for stage band in my senior year. That was a hell of a lot of fun, but out of my price range and skill level to continue with in college.

When I returned to playing 40+ years later, the clarinet skills came back quickly. The sax skills didn't. So when I'm jonesing to play sax, I play alto clarinet instead. Of course, I have yet to find anyone to let me play alto clarinet with them.

Ken

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