Klarinet Archive - Posting 000035.txt from 1994/12

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: David Kaminsky's comments on David buying a clarinet
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 12:15:16 -0500

Sage advice to David. I mean no disrespect to parents, but the purchase
of a clarinet involves two completely different perspectives. From the
viewpoint of the player there is the prestige of playing on an instrument
of some quality and the additional factor of finding a better instrument
allows more effective accomplishment of what must be done.

Parents, on the other hand, see a piece of black wood with shiny keys and
a price tag. I did the same thing when I had to get my daughter an oboe.
(When she wanted to try clarinet I was there with a million dollar
inventory in hand, but I objected to that kind of an expenditure for an
oboe unless I were assured that she was serious).

Try the instrument, YOURSELF. Be comfortable with it. In business there
is a saying that can easily be transferred over to buying a clarinet. It
goes like this: "The joy of a met schedule turns to ashes when the product
fails to work in the marketplace." It does not take much to translate this
from English into clarinet.

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