Doublereed Archive - Posting 000012.txt from 2002/12

From: BssnRX@-----.com
Subj: Re: [Doublereed-l] Price of Bassoons
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 22:11:05 -0500

In a message dated 11/22/2002 1:04:01 PM Eastern Standard Time,
herbgosia@-----.net writes:

I agree that the 601 (all Fox bassoons) is well made,
but I have never liked the type of resonance (lack) it has.

Hi Herb,
I once asked Chip Owen what his definition of resonance was and he gave me
a great answer, which I'm not gonna repeat here. I asked because I had
trouble with the way musicians throw the word around when describing certain
sounds and the fact that when I really thought about it, I couldn't come up
with a good definition of the word for myself. My feeling is that people, in
general, will use it to describe the sound that they are used to or have
been taught is the sound they should desire. IE: the "Heckel" sound. I'm not
even really sure what people mean by the "Heckel" sound, since the 5s sound
different from the 6s which sound different from the 9s etc. Anyway, I find
that after 10 years of playing my 601, it has as much "resonance" as almost
any Heckel I've heard and more than most, so I'm curious, what am I hearing
that you aren't and why. What exactly do you mean when you say "lack" of
resonance.
Jim Kirker