{"id":238,"date":"2009-05-26T06:48:45","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T10:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=238"},"modified":"2009-05-26T06:48:45","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T10:48:45","slug":"my-clarinet-needs-tilex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/26\/my-clarinet-needs-tilex\/","title":{"rendered":"MY CLARINET NEEDS TILEX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Instrument cases, they&#8217;re like coffins. <\/strong><\/span> Red velvet.\u00a0 Often musty.\u00a0 Occasionally mildewy.<\/p>\n<p>A clarinet is a chopped-up piece of African granadilla wood, stained black.\u00a0 It&#8217;s just a big wooden flute with a lot of hardware.\u00a0 It takes a minimum of seven years&#8217; practice to sound decent.\u00a0 Kids sound horrible on clarinets.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>When some schmuck calls and yells<\/strong><\/span> at me about no heat, I just fire up my clarinet.<\/p>\n<p>You need gigs, or you&#8217;ll quit practicing.\u00a0 Playing for oneself, that lasts only about six months. I hung with a community band once; the conductor ranted at us like we weren&#8217;t good enough to park cars at Severance Hall [home of the Cleveland Orchestra].\u00a0 I dropped out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;-<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #339966;\">Tomorrow:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #339966;\">TWO GUYS JAMMIN&#8217;. . . Fritz Kreisler and Fritz the Cat. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instrument cases, they&#8217;re like coffins. Red velvet.\u00a0 Often musty.\u00a0 Occasionally mildewy. A clarinet is a chopped-up piece of African granadilla wood, stained black.\u00a0 It&#8217;s just a big wooden flute with a lot of hardware.\u00a0 It takes a minimum of seven years&#8217; practice to sound decent.\u00a0 Kids sound horrible on clarinets. When some schmuck calls and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}