Klarinet Archive - Posting 000588.txt from 1995/04

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.EDU>
Subj: Eddie Daniels' clarinet
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 14:27:01 -0400

The talent of the man is so extraordinary that I cannot believe for one
millisecond that, somehow, he plays better on one instrument brand than
another. He would play as well as he does and sound as magnificent as
he does if a piece of railroad track with a mouthpiece on it were in his
mouth.

Therefore, the view that somehow, in the secret closet of his heart and
when no one is looking (When is no one looking?) he plays Buffet and
that is the real secret of his success is cow flop. There may be many
reasons why he plays a Buffet (if that is true) and there may be many
reasons why he thinks he sounds better on a Buffet (if that is true),
but I think that, with all his talent, Eddie Daniels is not different than
the rest of us; i.e., his level of insecurity is such that people might
not think him to be the giant that he is were he to play on other than
the "right" clarinet. So he is probably as much moved by social pressure
as he is by musical values.

We shall probably never hear it, but were he to play on a metal Beuscher,
he would (with the right mouthpiece and reed set up), still sound
magnificent whether he played Mozart or South Rampart Street Parade.

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