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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000067.txt from 2007/07

From: jimkatz@-----.ca
Subj: [DR-L] Re: Instrument Choices
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:53:27 -0400

I tend to come down on the side of "It's the musician, not the horn." As
a student, I was looking to buy a bassoon, and my teacher played about
five of them to help me choose. To my ordinary ears, the same passage
sounded pretty much the same despite radically different instruments.

(In the end I bought the one that had been used by the first chair of a
great orchestra, just for ego sake.)

In the end I guess some instruments will be a little easier to play, or
better for this or that, but over a very broad range, wouldn't you say
that a skilled musician can make any okay instrument in good repair sound
good?

I think the constant chasers of the next-even-better horn are like the
guys who spend every weekend tweaking their car engines for that tiny
extra bit of speed at the end of a year.. Their view of the point of
diminishing returns is a lot different from mine.

Jim Katz, Montreal

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