Klarinet Archive - Posting 000287.txt from 1995/11

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re the downside of using a Bundy
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 19:51:47 -0500

It is little more than snob appeal that causes some people to reject
a Bundy instrument as unworthy of use. Like everything, there are good
ones and bad ones. I had a Bundy E-flat that I used for years.

The keys are somewhat klutzy and not as refined as on a more expensive
clarinet but that is only my opinion, and in any case, no matter what the
keys look like, as long as they are functional it does not matter how
unrefined they are, except to the aesthetics of playing clarinet.

The resonite material from which Bundy is (used to be?) made is not as
beautiful as wood. However, my wife, is not as beautiful as Hedy Lamar
and therefore, so what?

I have a firm belief that the tonal characteristics of the Bundy instrument
are not in the least different from what the same player would get
executing on the a far more expensive instrument. This is because I
am of the opinion that the sound character of a player is hardly at all
a function of the material of which the clarinet is made. One would
sound the same on glass, plastic, or cheese-box wood (though that
is probably something of an overstatement).

Stop being embarassed about playing a Bundy. It does not make you an
ax murderer unless you are an ax murderer.

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