Klarinet Archive - Posting 001025.txt from 1998/11

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: A clarinettist's apologies
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 18:33:37 -0500

On Wed, 25 Nov 1998 19:23:02 -1300, leeson@-----.edu said:

> > From: MX%"klarinet@-----.47
> > Subj: [kl] Re: A clarinettist's apologies
>
> > I just read Anthony Pay's excellent discussion of clarinet acoustics
> > and intonation. But I must wonder, are all British wind experts
> > physicists? Beside Mr.Pay, we have Nick Shackleton, Arnold
> > Myers,......
> >
> > Robert Howe
>
> Well Tony Pay has his degree in mathematics, so he can deal very
> effectively in the esoteric.

I'm afraid I'm certainly not a physicist, and actually a very poor
excuse for a mathematician nowadays....

I had wondered why Robert thought I was a physicist, but I see now that
I wrote an ambiguous sentence:

"But as a physicist, you might do better."

...meaning that I, not a physicist, thinking *Martin* was a physicist,
thought that he could therefore do better than I had; rather than that
I, a physicist, thought he could do better than he had already done. I
should have written:

"But you, as a physicist, might do better."

But it's he that is a mathematician.

But I can read:-)

<disappears hastily, before a real physicist like Shackleton turns up>

Tony (if you want to say Antony, no 'h' please)
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