Klarinet Archive - Posting 000489.txt from 1997/01

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Matched pair
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 13:18:50 -0500

It is strange to ask and answer one's own question but I would like to
suggest that a matched pair, at one time in history, meant that the wood
for both clarinetscame from the same tree, and it may have even meant from
the same branch or trunk of the same tree. So the matching meant something
(though I have no idea if such a phenomenon would result in a measureably
better pair of clarinets than under other circumstances).

Once again we find that a standard terminological phrase in clarinetdom
has zero generally accepted meaning and personally, I'm sorry I ever
used the term as if it did have meaning.

LetLet me make a list:

matched pair
dark sound
bright sound
easy to play
a very good reed
the generally-agreed upon best clarinet
a knowledgeable conductor

There may be more such meaningless phrases.

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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
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