Klarinet Archive - Posting 000534.txt from 1996/02

From: SEAN TALBOT <talb4841@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Metal clarinets and ash trays
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 17:16:04 -0500

I know a guy who has turned several clarinets into lamps just
because they too broke, cracked or so forth to bother with repairing.
He told me that there were a couple good metal clarinets that came out
and quite a few bad ones that leaked air at every sodering point. He
didn't believe that one of these instrament could be played well no matter
how good the performer was. This idea that equipment doen't count at all
I have a hard time swallowing to an extent. A good player will sound
good no matter if they play Buffet, Yamaha, Selmer, Lablanc or a clarinet
made of an aliean substance that fell to earth. On the other side, if you
take a good musician and put them on a plastic Vito with a rico reads
and the most worthless stock mouthpiece on the planet, they wont sound
even close to beauty that they do on their highly crafted wooden clarintet.
If equipment doen't mean that much than why don't all of us go to
plastic reeds and clarinets bought at Walmart? =-) "tungue firmly
I mean "tongue firmly in cheek" (-8