Klarinet Archive - Posting 000188.txt from 1998/02

From: Neil Leupold <nleupold@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Was it elitism...?
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 01:28:00 -0500

Dan, how many professional clarinetists do you know of --
not even personally -- who play on a plastic clarinet?

Neil

On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:

> But I sensed in Tani's comments something that makes my spine
> shiver; i.e., an elitism, a looking down the nose at something
> that Tani considers inferior for no reason other than the fact
> that the instrument is made out of plastic as opposed to some
> other material.
>
> In effect that kind of thinking does not credit something for
> what it is, but what it is not. To presume that an instrument,
> ipso facto, cannot be good because it is made of plastic, is
> an intolerant statement to make because some very fine
> instruments are made out of plastic and some very bad clarinets
> are made out of wood.