[Dixielandjazz] Re: Plateau Clarinet

[dingle at baldwin-net.com]

Paul Edgerton wrote:
 >Sort of like the valve trombone, which everybody disparages as 
"automatic transmission" since it offers

the path of least resistance to failed trumpet players.<

Yo! I resent that remark!!! While some may think I have failed as a 
trumpet (cornet) player, I worked steadily and paid the bills for half a 
century.
I took up valve trombone as a double, and found I liked to play it, and 
a sampling of the Sons of Bix recordings would show that I got around 
well enough
to avoid having Tom Pletcher or Randy Rhinehart stumble over my tubing. 
So, there, too, take that I say, and in closing I have just six words to 
say -- Brad Gowens, Bob Evaldesen, and Bob Brookmeyer.
Don (I am taking names, addresses and cutting a deal with Guido of the 
large boney hands and very bad breath) Ingle