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Author: Fuzzy
Date: 2023-09-02 01:42
My question is whether folks who have queried the bboard's search function - or have searched through the Klarinet Mailing List archive (which Mark has so generously kept available to us) have a mental list of usernames (past and present) of those users who have most helped them.
For me, the list would include folks like (though I know I'm missing a majority):
Gordon (NZ)
Ken Shaw
Tony P
Seabreeze
Chris P
etc.
(Folks who are/were either professional players, and/or had/have unique knowledge which they freely share(d)).
What other names would you add to the list?
I'd love to be reminded of names which I've forgotten, or to discover new names that I had missed.
Thanks,
Fuzzy
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Author: Fuzzy
Date: 2023-09-02 02:20
Mark,
Thanks for the Stephen Fox reference! It made me recall Dan Leeson too.
Can't believe I didn't have GBK on the list!
Thanks,
Fuzzy
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2023-09-02 02:58
Fuzzy wrote:
> Mark,
>
> Thanks for the Stephen Fox reference! It made me recall Dan
> Leeson too.
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Dan was quite the character! That was in the days when the basset clarinet was just starting to become recognized as the clarinet Mozart had in mind when he wrote some of his most beautiful works.
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Author: kenb
Date: 2023-09-02 07:56
Yes, a list of leviathans - relief from the surface churning of the bait-fish (and I count myself as part of the latter!;))
Post Edited (2023-09-02 08:10)
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Author: SunnyDaze
Date: 2023-09-02 09:21
Ken Legace always seems to be able to see exactly what needs done, and say it so simply.
Hank Lehrer was really kind about helping me when I was buying a new clarinet.
Paul Aviles has been really brilliant in helping me to get my setup right and understand how to practise properly, when I got past the point where my in-person teacher here could help me with technical issues.
Partly though, it's just having a whole group of people to keep me company as I work away here. I think that having a like-minded group really is a huge thing.
And the moderators, without whom it couldn't exist. :-)
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Author: donald
Date: 2023-09-02 12:56
Gordon NZ certainly had a lot of repair knowledge and a very logical way of thinking about things, but was not an accomplished player at all and his weakness was that he disregarded advice, opinion, and preferences from those of us who had a high standard of playing demanded from us. Some of his repairs were exemplary- very fine workmanship. Other times (if he didn't really respect a player) he'd leave splinters poking into the bore (from enlarging a tone hole), and ignored advice from people who knew more about a subject than he did (as an example, his "voicing" and adjusting pad heights routinely involved just having the pads as high as possible, which on clarinet, AND ESPECIALLY ON SAXOPHONE caused intonation problems.
Yet on the BB he was a genius.
You only learn so much about a person from what they post on the internet.
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Author: kilo
Date: 2023-09-02 13:46
GBK, Ken Shaw,and Ed Palanker were very helpful when I began to play bass clarinet.
I *always* read anything posted by Chris P.
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Author: Michael E. Shultz
Date: 2023-09-02 14:42
Dr. Omar Henderson (The Doctor's Products) comes to mind. He brought the knowledge of chemistry to the clarinet field.
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
Groucho Marx
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Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2023-09-02 15:41
I miss Seabreeze's very informative posts (and emails.) Does anyone know what happened to him?
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Author: SunnyDaze
Date: 2023-09-03 00:27
That's true, I haven't seen Seabreeze on here for ages.
Also Bob Bernardo, who always was very interesting, and he's not here now either.
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