Klarinet Archive - Posting 000061.txt from 1994/02

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: fancy fancy talk
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 16:35:37 -0500

Let me tell you up front that fancy, fancy talk always impresses me. It
is probably a sign of insecurity, but when David Pino starts with this
even partials corrupting the semi-quasi-quaderalateral effect of the
multipli-syntactic units and that's why vibrato is bad, I get very
impressed. It's fancy, that's what it is and I respect fancy. In fact
I respect everything I don't understand.

Gilbert and Sullivan said it better: "And everyone will say, as you walk
your mystic way, 'If this young man expresses himself in terms too deep for
me, why what a most particularly deep young man, this deep young man must
be.'"

But guys like Jay Heiser and Cary Karp see right through all that fancy,
fancy and go to the heart of the matter at once; which is this, when
you don't have any facts, talk fancy, talk scientific, use terms like
even partials dissapearing into cyberspace, or even better, hyper
glomtronic simulation of pseudo vibratory pulsations. By doing this,
you are sure to get out of town before they find out there are no
bullets in your gun. Such knowledge is valuable indeed.

Thanks Jay and Cary for helping me to realize that I am not nearly as
stupid as I thought I was after reading David Pino's comments on
vibrato.

This seems to be another subject about which is there are strong
feelings based on limited knowledge. I know. I know. Don't tell
me the facts. My mind is already made up.

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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
(leeson@-----.edu)
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