Word: albert
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...which provides a lot of volume but requires cast-iron lips to play. (Benny Goodman once borrowed Woody's clarinet for a sit-in and had to shave the reed down with a kitchen knife before he could get a toot out of it.) Second, by playing an Albert System clarinet -- an antiquated, wide-bore instrument based on a virtually obsolete fingering method. Why the Albert System? "Because all the guys I liked played the Albert," says Woody...
...Italy in about 1890. Like many of the horns in Woody's collection, it was supplied by fellow clarinetist Davern, who picked it up in a New York City pawn shop. Davern once offered to lend Woody a horn that had belonged to the great New Orleans clarinetist Albert Burbank, another of Woody's idols. Woody hesitated. "What if somebody steals it?" he said. "So what?" replied Davern. "They'll probably steal it while I'm playing it," said Woody...
Sophomores Mike Shyjan, Derek Brown and Albert Chang prevailed in straight sets in the second, third and fourth singles positions, respectively. Shyjan defeated Columbia senior Harri Aiyer, 6-4, 6-2, while Derek Brown crushed Tom Givone, 6-0, 6-1. Chang trounced Steve Heroux...
...Mike Zimmerman (HARVARD) d. Gil Dailey (B.C.). 2-6, 6-3, 6-2; 2. Mike Shyjan (HARVARD) d. Hiro Takata, 6-0, 6-2; 3. Derek Brown (HARVARD) d. Chris O'Neill (B.C.), 6-3, 7-5; 4. Albert Chang HARVARD) d. Kevin Connolly (B.C.). 6-2, 7-5; 5. Jonathan Cardi (HARVARD) d. David Driscoll (B.C.), 6-4, 6-1; 6. Mark Leschly (HARVARD) d. J.J. Conners...
...chair--titled the Governor James Albert Noe Sr. and Linda and Christel Noe Laine professorship of China in world affairs--is to be funded by a grant from Linda Noe Laine, a member of the Fairbank Center Committee, a fundraising group affiliated with the center. The chair is named for Laine and her father and daughter...