Klarinet Archive - Posting 000274.txt from 1997/11

From: Jrykorten@-----.com
Subj: Re: But I NEEEED a new Clarinet!
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 20:31:41 -0500

Hilarious Dan! I laughed out loud.

Of course when things get more expensive you can justify them other ways...

"But a Volvo is the safest car there is..."

Ahh what we do for new toys.

Jerry Korten
NYC

In a message dated 97-11-06 08:45:58 EST, Dan writes:

<<
And Bravo to Neil for his comments below. He raises important
questions for which we have no answers. The problem with Robert's
statement above is contained in the phrase "if you think about this
for a moment..." The fact is that one has to think about this
for a lot more than a moment, and to relieve oneself of the
extraordinary amount of folklore and grandmother's tales related
to the subject of "blow out." I would like to suggest that the
reason why bassoons do not blow out is because they are more
expensive and thus, technologically ill-understood phenomena like
blow out are not applied to it. For an instrument that costs
$2,000, blow out exists, but for an instrument that costs $20,000
it doesn't? Do bass clarinets blow out? Do basset horns blow out?
Have you ever heard of an orchestral bass clarinetist claiming that
his instrument is blown out?
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