Klarinet Archive - Posting 000544.txt from 1998/11

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Oh frabjous day!!
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 22:06:22 -0500

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.36
> Subj: Re: [kl] Oh frabjous day!!

> Sorry, Dan, I sent this post in response to an earlier post of yours and then
> you talked about the straight string pianos vs. modern pianos.
>
> I never thought of that.
>
> thanks for the info -- even though my husband is a music major, music history
> is not his strong point, and I am a liberal arts major. Much of that is
> stuff I am not readily exposed to .
>
> Roger -- about the Schubert, etc... is it better on period instuments for the
> same reasons?

Although you asked Roger this question, may I comment on the nature of your
inquriy? I don't think that Roger said (and I know I did not say) that one
way was better while the other was, by definition, worse.

I tried very hard to use the term "different" rather than qualify it with
matters of taste. And that the two are different is measurable and thus,
accurate.

One problem with the original instrument movement is that they keep saying
that what they do is better. Well that may be for you or me or them, but
it is not necessarily true for the whole world, and what is worse, it
offends many people when this suggestion is offered as if it is true.

It is at the same level of irritation as when I read on this list
that a Buffet is better (or worse) than a Selmer or LeBlanc or anything
else. For what such a statement is is only an expression of an opinion
not a matter of technical fact. It may be true for the person who says
it but it is not a technical truth that applies to everyone.

>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
=======================================
Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
leeson@-----.edu
=======================================

-------------------------------------------------------------------------