Klarinet Archive - Posting 000536.txt from 1998/09

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] real subject: breaking in my R-13
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 00:20:49 -0400

From: GTGallant@-----.com>

>In a message dated 98-09-15 20:08:44 EDT, you write:
>
><< has to be broken in correctly - tuning in mind. The wood has
> to get use to vibrating and making sound. Playing altissimo from the
> beginning is NOT how to do this. >>
>
>This is the stupidest frickin' thing (ala Shouryu) I have ever heard.
This
>was what I was referring to when I responded the first time. Dead
wood - or
>anything non-living thing for that matter - doesn't get used to
anything. It
>is impossible to teach a dead dog new tricks! Anyway, I think wood,
alive or
>dead, does not know the difference between a C or a Bb. Your teacher
may be
>a little crazy.

Probably a bad choice of words - "to get used to". However, there _may_
be something to be said for seasoning - you know, letting the wood
"experience" different temperatures and humidity levels. I had perfectly
good and expensive furniture literally split and fall to pieces when I
moved it from Japan to Seattle.

Considering the wood doesn't really vibrate much at all, I don't _think_
playing altissimo would hurt it at all. But, then again, not having done
the statistics, not having done any science, I wouldn't be so bold as to
say "This is the stupidest frickin' thing (ala Shouryu) I have ever
heard." Maybe there's something that you and I don't know that would
come out if we had the time & inclination to gather lots of evidence
and/or perform a test on many clarinets.

As to the teacher being crazy - most folk tales have a germ of truth.
Maybe not in this case - but do you _know_ (and are you willing to risk
$2000.00 of your own money) that the teacher is wrong?
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