Klarinet Archive - Posting 000643.txt from 1998/05

From: Grant Green <gdgreen@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] A new concept in orchestral clarinets
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 19:46:14 -0400

At 04:00 PM 5/12/98 EDT, the visionary Dan Leeson wrote:
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>I think that what the manufacturers have no sense of is how to
>exploit the market for musical instruments. They are generally
>good technicians, good mechanics, and good players, but they
>have no marketing imagination. They are allowing a first class
>opportunity to slip away from them (i.e., the potential
>replacement of every B-flat and A instrument in the U.S. and
>elsewhere with basset clarinets) because they have no vision.
>
>And the main failure of their vision is that they do not see
>the creation of a marketplace from nothingness as a business
>opportunity. They remind me of how the American automobile
>manufacturers behaved when the Japanese began to eat their
>lunch beginning 20-25 years ago. The Japanese had marketing
>vision, and the Americans had none. They believe that their

Perhaps this is the answer: suggest it to Yamaha....

Grant

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