[LRflex] Re: Finnegan, begin again...

  • From: Peter Klein <pklein@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 14:28:45 -0800

Everyone:  Thanks for the comments on my selfie with my Bellowing 
Bedpost. Which does indeed seem to have grown legs (thanks, Steve!).

Richard:  Great story.  Bassoons are made of maple wood. As for 
insanity, bassoonists don't have to worry about too much high-frequency 
feedback. But reed issues can drive you crazy, not to mention 
fingerings. The bassoon was never able to take advantage of the 
newfangled 19th century key systems that allowed one to play with 
reasonable facility in all musical keys. So we just have to do it 
anyway. On some scales you are changing most of your fingers with every 
note. The left thumb operates 9 keys, the right thumb, 4 keys.

I have been writing *about* music and composing music all my adult 
life.  I gave up playing over 20 years ago after a carpal-tunnel type of 
hand injury (which was caused by too many long hours working at the 
computer). Anyway, lately I've realized how much I miss making music 
with other people. And I've realized that anything worth doing is worth 
doing imperfectly, something I didn't understand when I was younger.

--Peter

Richard Ward sez:
 > Congrats on Begining Again!
 >
 > A hilarious co-worker I used to have talked about having been a 
competition winning tuba player in college. He would joke that the 
reason he gave it up is because the lives of concert musicians always 
turn out bad: The brass players end up broke alcoholics because no one 
respects orchestral tuba players and the reed instruments players end up 
suicidal because their instruments cause a high frequency feedback up 
through their skulls causing brain damage.
 >
 > So take proper precautions to protect the ole Brain Pan Peter!
 >
 > BTW the wood of your instrument looks gorgeous!
 > What is it made of?
 >
 > Richard in Michigan
 >
 > Whose only instrument has been a camera!
 >
 > I sez:
 > On Feb 26, 2012, at 11:34 PM, Peter Klein wrote:
 >
 > > I have another vice besides photography. Lately, the temptation was 
just
 > > too great, and I gave in...
 > > <http://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/6934348851/in/photostream>

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