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And then, when they got to church door he'd throw down the clarinet, mount the gallery, snatch up the bass viol, and rozum away as if he'd never played anything but a bass viol. Folk would say folk that knowed what a true stave was 'Surely, surely that's never the same man that I saw handling the clarinet so masterly by now!" "I can mind it," said the furze-cutter.
"That is a pity; our choir is so excellent two violins, a viola, clarinet, 'cello, double bass, the trumpets and drums, and of course the organ. Our organist himself " At that moment a young clergyman came into the room, making apologies and bowing subserviently. "Ah, this is Mr. Golightly the-h'm Hon. and Rev. Mr. Storm. You will take charge of Mr.
I can sing it, and if I had my clarinet here I could play it. Heave the menu over the side of the boat and listen to me. What I want is just plain food food like mother used to make and mother's fair-haired boy used to eat. We will start off with turkey turkey a la America, understand; turkey that is all to the Hail Columbia, Happy Land.
We once lived in a flat where there was a piano at one end of the hall and two phonographs at the other. Then there was a man across the air-shaft who practised on the clarinet, and a professional singer up-stairs. Besides this, when the season was right, we had a hand-organ concert every few minutes on the street. When everything was going at once it was quite a combination.
Our music consisted of the well-mixed strains of a melodeon which was a little asthmatic and apt to catch its breath where it ought to come out strong, a clarinet which was a little unreliable on the high keys and rather melancholy on the low ones, and a disreputable accordion that had a leak somewhere and breathed louder than it squawked a more elegant term does not occur to me just now.
On his head he wore a pavilion hung with bells that pealed when he twisted or nodded his long, yellow neck. He carried a weather-worn fiddle with a string or two missing, while a pipe that might have been a clarinet years before, now emitted but cackling tones from his thin lips, through which shone a few fanglike teeth.
He was as beautiful and new as a trellis of sweet peas, and as rollicking as a clarinet solo. We shook hands, and he asked me what I was doing, and I gave him the outlines of the scandal I was trying to create in mica. "'Pooh, pooh! for your mica, says Denver. 'Don't you know better, Sully, than to bump up against the coffers of little old New York with anything as transparent as mica?
Though the phrases that he has written for bassoon or clarinet might imaginably be executed by other instruments, the music would perish utterly in the substitution. What instrument but the viola could appreciate the famous "Harold" theme?
He played the clarinet, I say; and my father played the musical glasses, which was a form of harmony pertiklerly genial to him. Amongst us we've piped out a good long century ah! we have, for all I look sich a babby bursting on sops and spoon meat." "What!" said the little man by the door. "You don't include them cockt hatses in your expeerunce?" "My grandfather wore 'em, sir.
"Oi wonder whativer it can be, Oi dunno?" Frank listened. "To me it sounds like a cross between a clarinet, a flute, and a piccolo," he smiled. "Some one is trying to furnish music for this festive occasion." He called one of the servants and asked her to find out the origin of the peculiar doleful music.
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