Klarinet Archive - Posting 000195.txt from 1996/07

From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns%cl.cam.ac.uk@-----.BITNET>
Subj: Re: Help in Research please
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 04:31:06 -0400

> Unpleasant tho the statement may be to you, it is TRUE. [...]
> It is also much easier to play simple melodies and
> sound "better" and more in tune of a wind instrument than on a string
> instrument.

The tuning issue is indeed an important one, and one that always
seemed to bother the (rather poor) amateur players I was involved with
at school. Of course, there is a class of tone-deaf amateur string
players as well (I can never understand how they get where they
are...)

> This should not be viewed as a slight to us wind players but one
> should not allow chauvenistic conceit to overshadow facts.

The responses have in the large been joky; I certainly meant no
chauvinism in _my_ response. I _know_ the clarinet's a superior
instrument (;-) but I'm in no real position to make assertions about
the qualities of players...

Robin