Klarinet Archive - Posting 000114.txt from 1997/11

From: "David B. Niethamer" <dnietham@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Reed Strengths and types
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 00:03:43 -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.

>on 11/4/97 7:13 PM, Edwin V. Lacy wrote:

>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?

Those of us who play in an orchestra for our livelihood may be
unbalanced, but acoustics is only part of it!!

David

David Niethamer
Principal Clarinet, Richmond Symphony
dnietham@-----.edu
http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/