Klarinet Archive - Posting 000076.txt from 1998/02

From: fersilv@-----.net
Subj: Re: Noblets
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:29:22 -0500

Dear Jennifer, I think you didn't got the main reason of that
discussion.
All of our collegues have been trying to say to you that YOU CAN
disagree and you can have your point of view. But you are alone...
Can you waiting a few minutes and think about it: " Am I realy
right?? Am I have the expirience enough to think like that?? Did I compare
Noblets with a student Buffet or Selmers Bass Clarinets??" Because that
Student Buffet Bass are BAD for me.
You can not compare pro horns with the student line.
Of course you will find a brand new Selmer Bass better then Noblet.
So I am. But, like the entire Klarinet said, Noblet is a playable student
line harmony clarinets.
And, I think, the word "serious" and "professional", or something
like that, don't have to been used like you did. All of us are in the same
level in Klarinet: like friends.

All the best

Fernando

At 22:18 01/02/98 -0600, you wrote:
> I am very disappointed that my comment has sparked such a sore in the side
of this
>list. Please keep in mind that I made no personal attacks at anyone on this
list. But much of
>the mail that I have received has been much to that point (Jack and
Shouryn). Everyone is
>entitled to their own opinion; weather mine does not agree with yours or
not is not the point,
>you can simply say that you do not agree without crossing over the line.
And to answer to your
>question Josh, i was a sophomore in highschool when i traveled to a music
shop in Canton
>Massachusetts and tried 4 noblet bass clarinets and 1 Selmer Bass clarinet,
and not at all to
>my surprise i obviously found the PROFFESIONAL level Selmer to be easier to
play and with a
>better tone than all 4 noblets. January my Senior year in high school I
traveled into Boston to
>Rayburn music and tried 12 clarinets- 2 selmers, 2 LeBlancs, 2 noblet 45's,
1 Buffet e-11 (the
>brand on which i was already playing) and 5 Buffet r-13's (on which i
decided) of course i
>found the Leblancs and Buffets the easiest to produce the best tone on,
with the Noblets being
>on the botton of the ladder. So i think it is unfair to say that my
comments are not founded,
>all of the instruments that i tried that day were brand new. I had
experience with a Noblet
>Bass clarinet also,i was estatic when my high school received a wood bass
clarinet, from what I
>imagined to be the dumpster, and my high school has always been much more
responsible than
>most. (For any of you who know of it, I went to Foxboro High School which
is noted for it's
>jazz program;although i am not a jazz major at UNT; which is also the same
high school that won
>the Duke Ellington jazz festival, at the Lincoln Center last May, and won
$5000 for the
>program) so the bass clarinet that i recieved was not in bad shape, but in
poor quality to
>begin with. I would never substitute a Noblet for the Buffet that i have
now, and for those of
>you that would, i am not one to say, but from my point of view they are not
worth the effort
>that it took me to try and get a go sound on. and yes i had a good set up
at the time (Vandoren
>r13 and bonade inverted ligature) so i knew what i had to choose when i was
testing them. And
>to Shouryn, i never said that i was good, certainly by standards here at
unt i have a long way
>to go, but i do not appreciate having that personal attack, i know alot of
people on this list
>are very good, Roger and Fred Jacobowitz just to name a few, i am sorry if
i offended anyone,
>but many of your actions in response to mine were uncalled for. I am sorry
if i broke any
>rules, but it may be good to post those rules.
>
>jennifer mckenna
>jrm0013@-----.edu
>university of north texas
>clarinet concentration/music ed major
>
>p.s. YES, I am bragging.
>
>
>

______________________
Fernando Jose Silveira
Principal Clarinet - National Symphony - Brazil
fersilv@-----.net