Klarinet Archive - Posting 000384.txt from 1998/09

From: "Dee Hays" <deerich@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] breaking in my R13
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 16:10:55 -0400

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From: GTGallant@-----.com>
Date: Sunday, September 13, 1998 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] breaking in my R13

>Sounds strange to me. Your teacher was probably told to do that by her
>teacher. I'd ignore it and play the hell out of your new horn. For future
>reference, if someone tells you to do something that defies logic, blow it
>off!!!!

The playing five minutes and increasing a little at a time happens to be the
procedure described in the Woodwind and Brasswind catalog for all
instruments made of wood.

Just because something APPEARS to defy logic does not mean that it is wrong.
Since all my clarinets were bought used, I have no experience in what would
be an acceptable break in procedure and I would certainly investigate very
thoroughly before "blowing off" the advice of an experienced practitioner.

Galileo was tried for heresy because he stated that he had seen the moons of
Jupiter circling that planet for it defied the logic of the day that the
earth was the center of the universe.

Columbus had a great deal of difficulty in getting funding for his voyage to
find India by going west from Europe. Afterall the logic of the day said
that the earth was flat.

Radio waves were impossible as they defied logic until Marconi and others
like him invented radios.

Desktop computers were impossible until some one discovered how to make
transistors, etc and do away with vacuum tubes.

Photography once was impossible until some one discovered photosensitive
materials.

X-rays were once impossible.

Need I really go on? Entire books can be filled in with discoveries and
inventions that "defied logic."

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

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