Walter Meyer wrote:

>...At that point, the clarinetist realized to his horror that he had just
>been playing the wrong clarinet (A instead of Bb, or vice versa) throughout
>the movement.... I couldn't resist, however, passing the story on to my
>Internet friends (some of whom, I suspect will advise me that this is
>apocryphal if not an urban legend).

I don't know but would be rather surprised if it were NOT an urban legend.
But I do know that Stravinsky failed to notice the Bass drum misprint in Le
Sacre, the one that everyone misses, including him. (He said so in one of
his books with Craft.)

Chris Bonds