Klarinet Archive - Posting 000587.txt from 1998/05

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Matches sets
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 07:51:32 -0400

I think last time this came up, it was agreed that the term was a
marketing ploy. Anyway, how could an instrument-maker keep track of
individual billets of wood and their sources? I suppose Rossi might just
be
able to, but can anyone believe that Buffet would or could do this?
Roger Shilcock

On Mon, 11 May 1998, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:

> Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 11:35:32 EDT
> From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Matches sets
>
> Al Chiavarini made reference to "so called matched sets" of clarinets.
> And that reminded me that when this term "matched set" was last
> brought up, I posted a question asking exactly what was meant by
> that term.
>
> I wasn't trying to sandbag anyone, but rather it is a term that
> is widely used but not clearly understood. As for myself, I was
> told once that a matched set meant that the both instruments came
> from the same tree or, perhaps, the same branch of that tree
> and, in principle, therefore, should have similar playing
> characteristics.
>
> I don't know if this is true, only that this was the sole reason
> I had available to me as descriptive of the term, "matched set."
>
> So what is a matched set?
>
>
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> Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
> Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
> leeson@-----.edu
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