Klarinet Archive - Posting 000806.txt from 1999/01

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Subjective and Objective
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 22:54:46 -0500

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
>But if a instument can be made that can
>play just as beautifully and just as much in tune WITHOUT the extra
effort,
>why wouldn't the clarinet world be beating a path to that
manufacturer's
>door? Tradition? Inertia? Peer pressure? Maybe macho (I don't need
an
>"easy to play" horn, I'm too good for that!)?

Sometimes the work of making an instrument play in tune adds "character"
to the sound. At least that's what I've been led to believe about the
Selmer Mk VI sax by a person I respect and trust here in Detroit (Irv
Feldman, one of the finest legit sax players I've heard). He tells me
the Mk VI (at least the one he owns) is not all that good at intonation,
but the "special sound" he gets out of it is partly due to the work he
has to put in to make it play in tune.

Works for him, anyway.
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"There can be no freedom without discipline." - Nadia Boulanger

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