Klarinet Archive - Posting 000128.txt from 1997/11

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: Re: Re: Ricardo Morales Recital
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 04:56:01 -0500

Of course different *woods* vibrate differently. Nobody is talking about
wood. It's *air*******, for Gawd's sake.
Eminent designer though Tom R. is, what he's saying is not common sense,
and according to some authorities, not even provable.
Roger Shilcock

On Wed, 5 Nov 1997 PGAYR@-----.com wrote:

> Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 04:29:42 -0500 (EST)
> From: PGAYR@-----.com
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.us
> To: klarinet@-----.us
> Subject: Re: Re: Re: Ricardo Morales Recital
>
> roger garrett wrote:
>
> Tom....
>
> I know you and I have visited about the idea that materials make all the
> difference in the world, and your post here supports that idea. I just
> wonder why there is so much opposition to the fact that you have
> researched and developed such outstanding instruments and, in fact,
> determined that materials are very important?
>
> Would you mind commenting on the kinds of research you did regarding
> selection of materials (woods, plastics, etc...) that helped you develop
> the Leblanc line?
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Roger Garrett
> Roger,
> I can't really do that because of the relationship that Leblanc and I have
> had and that information is not for me to share,..... but isn't it evident
> that materials make a great difference????? To deny such a proposition here
> and to affirm the obvious uniqueness of all things elsewhere (even every snow
> flake is different!!!!!)
> seems to me to be a real contradiction in logic. Besides, any fool can hear
> it. Good grief, even different pieces of the same genre of wood vibrate and
> sound differently. It's as plain as the nose on Jimmy Durante's face....
> which as some of us may remember was pretty plain.
> Good night Mrs. Calabash, where ever you are.
> Tom
>