Klarinet Archive - Posting 000505.txt from 1997/09

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: ending the GreenLine plastic/composite thread
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 11:52:18 -0400

On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Jonathan Cohler wrote:

> Huh? Please translate into English.

No need to get sarcastic here....the tester, now known as the scientist,
will listen to the clarinetist, now known as the poor soul who may not be
allowed to put his hands on the horn......

The Scientist does not know how the poor soul distinguishes between horn.
Distinguish, in this case, to discern, separate, decide between,
acertain.....

> Again, I'll repeat it for the umpteenth time, these experiments have been
> done and they are fact NOT opinion.

Scientific research or not, I am not alone in believing that a person must
be allowed to play an instrument - and we all hope that we can be trusted
to decide without bias of seeing wood and thinking, AH-HA! It must be
better than plastic! After all, we are being asked to accept the
experiments that have no opinions.......simply numbers and test results
right? The way an instrument blows and the resistance associated with it
varies between "identical" clarinets....that is same make and model. If
the test result is identical between these, what are we to think?

> is a blowing or sound difference. If the testers can feel the instrument
> with their hands, their responses will be biased and useless.

this is opinion Jonathan...I'm sorry......they will not necessarily be
biased.

Roger Garrett