Klarinet Archive - Posting 000177.txt from 1998/02

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Was it elitism or just an unfortunate figure of speech?
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 22:05:15 -0500

On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:
> Perhaps I misinterpreted Tani's statement and if I did, I'm
> sorry, but taken at its face value (one of the problems of
> the internet) it is the kind of thing that makes on shudder
> 20 years later in the remembrance of being so narrow and
> parochial.

I would never speak to the issue of what Tani meanit exactly, but I did
not personally read into the posting what Dan did.

On the other hand, while there are some terrific plastics out there and
some throw-in-the-garbage-disposal woods out there, more woods play better
than their plastic couterparts.......whether it be the undercutting, the
taper, the barrel, the imprint on the horn...whatever....fact is fact.
Not to wonder why there is a prejudice....and we certianly cannot blame
anyone for holding that prejudice!

Roger Garrett
IWU