Klarinet Archive - Posting 000104.txt from 1997/11

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Reed Strengths and types
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 20:13:05 -0500

On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, J. Blake Arrington wrote:

> I'm sorry to inform you about this, but the Leblanc Concerto and Opus
> are far more superior to any Buffet clarinet. They are more
> acoustically balanced, and they are less prone to cracking that Buffets.

What does "acoustically balanced" mean? I've been in music for nearly 50
years, have played clarinet all that time, have three degrees in music,
have studied acoustics at Indiana University, and have been teaching for
38 years including 32 years at the university level, and have never before
heard the phrase "acoustically balanced."

Does this mean that professional clarinetists in symphony orchestras, the
majority of whom play Buffet, have been playing on "acoustically
unbalanced" clarinets for all these years and didn't know it?

Ed Lacy
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