I think those are fun! Haikus are rather hard to write. I was always god at writing Beat poetry since you need to swing between the absolute and the abstract ... and some times both in the same line.

The other day I saw a lamp someone had made from an old clarinet.

I have an alto sax, myself. Not that you'd want to hear me play it ... but I do play a pretty good version of Boulevard of Broken Dreams!

Who knows . . . maybe fun poems will appear again from time to time . . .

Anyway, I saw a clarinet lamp once on eBay . . . It was made from a Pete Fountain clarinet (plastic student model, of course!) with a lampshade that had a caricature of Fountain on it.

Who knows . . . you still may sound better on sax than I do! I can play two notes at once on it, but not intentionally. Mainly, I need to loosen up my embouchure and open up my voicing. I'm still too much in "clarinet mode" when I play sax.

The clarinet lamp I saw was made from an old instrument ... and probably quite a good one, too.

I need to get the corks and pads re-done on my sax.

My new (well, new to me, at least) clarinet had to be re-corked and padded as soon as I got it, so I went for the full overhaul and had the keys polished, too. It looks pretty good for being 38 years old! It's a 1964 Selmer Series 9 complete with the original zippered case.

Did you know . . . Goodman played a Series 9 in the '60's! I actually found that out after I got it; I got the Series 9 because it pretty well fit for what I wanted in a clarinet - a nice jazz clarinet that wouldn't sound out of place in a legit setting, either.

What type of sax do you have?

Sounds like you've got a pretty swellegant clarinet there, Benni!

My sax is a Bundy ... and at the moment that's all I can tell you about it since its buried under a huge stack of books.

Hopefully it's in its case under all those books . . .

I've been toying with the idea of getting myself a sax, but first I want a new mouthpiece for my clarinet.

P.S. I just sent "Surfin' Snoopy" to you . . . The attachment is small, so even if you have a file size limit or something, it should still get there.

Oh yes, the sax is safe within a case! Its buried underneath a big stack of Dover books on Victorian and early 20th Century architecture.

Are you thinking of getting an alto or tenor (or soprano or baritone) sax? If I had it to do over again, I'd get a tenor sax.

Thanks for Surfin' Snoopy! Very cool! :D

Glad you liked the song!

I'm thinking of getting an alto because I sound even worse on tenor than I do on alto . . . Once I'm decent on alto, then I can start thinking about getting within a five foot radius of a tenor again. I'd probably have no trouble on soprano, but I'm really looking to double on an instrument that will make me look like a more appealing and versatile player to a jazz band. If I could have (and sucessfully play) any sax I wanted, I'd go for a bass! But the day I find a bass sax is the day I find a time machine to go back in time and get lessons on it from Adrian Rollini . . . hehe

A bass sax ... wow! A friend of mine had a bass sax and I tried that out but I could only manage the top two keys and and I mostly made a horrible cow-like noise. Talk about embouchure!