Klarinet Archive - Posting 001165.txt from 1999/01

From: "farfl's house" <farfl@-----.ca>
Subj: [kl] Re: klarinet Digest 23 Jan 1999 02:35:44 -0000 Issue 974
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 01:46:06 -0500

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> klarinet Digest 23 Jan 1999 02:35:44 -0000 Issue 974
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> Topics (messages 11447 through 11459):
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> The New York weather report, tweeting birds, and music
> 11447 by: Note Staff Unlimited <notestaff@-----.ch>
> 11453 by: "Paulette W. Gulakowski" <pollyg@-----.com>
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> Benade's NX clarinet
> 11448 by: Virginia Benade <vwb@-----.edu>
>
> Everything we learned was wrong
> 11449 by: Ravel1024@-----.com
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> Update on Sneezy's move ...
> 11450 by: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
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> HELP!
> 11451 by: Klarinet94@-----.com
> 11455 by: Gary Van Cott<Gary@-----.com>
> 11457 by: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
> 11458 by: Vicki Coffman <coffman@-----.net>
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> Feline diatribe(was" leaving equipment on stand")
> 11452 by: LeliaLoban@-----.com
> 11454 by: "Paulette W. Gulakowski" <pollyg@-----.com>
> 11459 by: Jack Kissinger <kissingerjn@-----.EDU>
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> Abe's Left-Handed Clarinet
> 11456 by: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
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> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 23:21:31 +0100
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> From: Note Staff Unlimited <notestaff@-----.ch>
> Subject: Re: [kl] The New York weather report, tweeting birds, and music
> Message-ID: <36A8F9EB.DE023426@-----.ch>
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> CmdrHerel@-----.com schrieb:
>
> > Well, Scott, I tried this, but where does the coffee and donut go? I held the
> > donut in my teeth and put the coffee cup between my legs, but when I hit a
> > snag with the CD foil, I involuntarily bit down, losing most of the donut. It
> > landed face down on the floor after getting chunks of chocolate frosting all
> > over my clothes. I was able to reach it with one hand, but then I had to
> > spend the next five minutes picking the plastic CD cover shards out of it with
> > my teeth. (The cover shattered when I was stomping on it with my feet to open
> > it. Is that supposed to happen? Didn't seem very practical to me, but hey,
> > I'm willing to try things.) I have automatic windows, so spitting the plastic
> > shards out the window was not a problem. Even so, there has to be a better
> > way to manage the food items. By the way, my mug holders are too small for
> > standard paper coffee cups, never mind there not being a place to keep the
> > donut. That's digressing a little bit, though. My main concern is the donut,
> > not the coffee.
> >
> > Teri. :)
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Remind me never to get into the passenger seat while you're driving!
>
> Actually, I was in that situation once. When I went to the Püchner and Schreiber
> factories with Georg to demonstrate the Resonance Spectrally Tuned clarinet. We
> drove up with a colleage of Georg's who drives a lot on the freeway. It was
> pouring rain and also a bit foggy. This guy drove 180 km (that's 112.5 mph) on the
> A5 Autobahn and was steering with one knee while he unwrapped his sandwich and
> fiddled with his drink. I asked if I could drive and he let me. Was a really neat
> BMW station wagen. Georg said very pointedly, "I think David drives *much* better
> than you do! (He meant more slowly!)
>
> David
> David Glenn
> notestaff@-----.ch
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 19:26:15 EST
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> From: "Paulette W. Gulakowski" <pollyg@-----.com>
> Subject: Re: [kl] The New York weather report, tweeting birds, and music
> Message-ID: <19990122.200029.3710.3.POLLYG@-----.com>
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> The donut hangs off the properly crooked pinky, don'tcha know!
> p
>
> On Fri, 22 Jan 1999 12:57:45 -0800 "Kevin Fay (LCA)"
> <kevinfay@-----.com> writes:
> >According to Tom, you need to freeze the donut.
> >
> >kjf
> >
> ><snip>
> >My main concern is the donut, not the coffee.
> >
> >Teri. :)
> >
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> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 18:01:30 -0500
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> From: Virginia Benade <vwb@-----.edu>
> Subject: Re: [kl] Benade's NX clarinet
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> Dear List Members--
>
> I have information in reply to Doug Sears's posting <Benade's NX
> clarinet> on 14 Jan 1999 (1999/01/00647.txt), which was forwarded
> to me by Doug Keefe (keefe@-----.org), a former student of
> Benade's now doing research in Omaha, NE. As you may guess, I am
> Art Benade's widow, and I live in suburban Cleveland, OH.
>
> I can report on what happened at the Chicago Clarinetfest '94--in
> fact I was on stage playing the piano for the demonstration of
> the NX. The main speaker was George Jameson, who worked with
> Benade from 1967 to Benade's death in 1987. Jameson by '94 had
> made two more NX prototypes (in B-flat and A), changing the key
> mechanisms slightly while trying (mostly successfully) to leave
> the acoustical design of the instrument unchanged. The other
> speaker was Steve Umans, a researcher at MIT who explained some
> of the more theoretical aspects of the design and also played the
> original NX in a demonstration that took up close to half of the
> half-hour allotted time. (Played were the Allegro appassionato
> from the 2nd Brahms sonata, the first of the Schumann Fantasy
> Pieces, and an arrangement of the Schubert Romanze originally for
> soprano with clarinet obbligato).
>
> The very early morning scheduling meant the audience was not very
> big, but close to 100 people came. The presentation was followed
> by another half-hour 'research' presentation, an excellent
> presentation by Pamela Poulin. When this was finished, quite a
> few people in the audience who had heard the presentation on the
> NX came forward to examined and play the three instruments
> (Benade's B-flat NX and Jameson's B-flat and A prototypes) and to
> speak with Jameson and Umans.
>
> Jameson unfortunately has since died of cancer. I have the
> original Benade NX, plus Jameson's two slightly different
> prototype instruments. I welcome people to visit me and try them
> out, but do not generally allow them to leave my house. Details
> on how to reach me are at the end of this letter.
>
> You ask what happened after Clarinetfest '94. Interest in the NX
> has continued during that time. Also, a Benade Archive has been
> established at CCRMA at Stanford:
>
> http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/CCRMA/Collections/MARL/Benade/
>
> Only the Biography and Writings sections are completed, but the
> Writings section is extensive and contains much that was never
> published. Most of the noncopyrighted material can be made
> available for download via .pdf files, with a few things already
> in this state. The sections on data files and correspondence
> contain only file headings at this point. However, these will be
> expanded on as I find time to create descriptions and set them up
> in HTML.
>
> As to possibility availability of instruments of the NX design
> for actual use, there is exciting news! A maker of handmade
> clarinets got in touch with me late last summer. He has visited
> here to see the instruments, and he now has all the existing
> writings and data files on the NX. He has already made a
> prototype. In my estimation he has the experience, background,
> and willingness to do the rigorous work that should lead to a
> viable NX instrument. I will reserve my final judgment of the
> instrument until I hear the NX that he produces, but things are
> looking very encouraging. As I understand it, these will be
> available only on special order. The maker is:
>
> Stephen Fox
> Clarino Music Services
> 242 Ashlar Rd.
> Richmond Hill, Ont. (near Toronto)
> Canada L4C 2W6
> Tel/Fax: (905) 737-7263
> 104022.3105@-----.com
>
> I include these particulars so that anyone who is seriously
> interested may get in touch with him with a view to being
> notified when the prototype is ready for reproduction. I
> understand that there is an extensive waiting list for Stephen's
> instruments of more traditional design, and if the NX is offered,
> there will no doubt also be a wait.
>
> There is even the possibility of other reproductions being
> available eventually. Last summer at a musical acoustics
> conference I met a performer and maker of mouthpieces who lives
> in England. He has formed an informal group (including well-
> known English performer advisors and a German maker) who are also
> seriously interested in reproducing a working version of the NX
> design.
>
> Moreover, a serious-minded English amateur clarinetist visited
> Cleveland a little over a year ago to study the NX and take
> careful measurements. He is working (he says it is going slowly)
> with a friend on an epoxy-resin reproduction.
>
> I want to send my greetings to Klarinet List members. I was a
> member at one time and enjoyed the discussions, but didn't have
> time to continue as a subscriber. One item might be of interest
> to those who are acquainted with me--or with Art Benade: after
> eleven years of widowhood, I am recently engaged to a delightful
> clarinetest (what else!) whom I met at a woodwind music camp.
> Life does indeed have delightful surprises!
>
> Best regards, Virginia
>
> Virginia Benade
> 216/752-9453
> vwb@-----.edu
>
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> >From: "Doug Sears" <dsears@-----.org>
> >To: "klarinet" <klarinet@-----.org>
> >Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 15:47:15 -0800
> >Subject: [kl] Benade's NX clarinet
> >
> >I've been reading the articles in The Clarinet and in The Galpin Society
> >Journal about Arthur Benade's NX clarinet design, and I find the idea very
> >exciting. It represents a fairly radical change in design that addresses
> >(just as one example) many of the criticisms of the R13 that Tom Ridenour
> >just mentioned.
> >
> >A working prototype was supposedly going to be demonstrated at
> >Clarinetfest '94 in Chicago. Does anyone who was there know anything about
> >that? what has happened since then? Have any more prototypes been made? Is
> >anyone working on commercial production? I'd love to try one out or at
> >least hear from someone who has.
> >
> >Here are the references:
> >
> >Arthur H. Benade, Benade's NX clarinet: its genesis,
> >The Clarinet, Feb./Mar. 1994, pp. 46-48
> >
> >George Jameson, Benade's NX clarinet: mechanical and other considerations,
> >The Clarinet, May/June 1994, pp. 32-33.
> >
> >Arthur H. Benade & Douglas H. Keefe, The physics of a new clarinet design,
> >The Galpin Society Journal, vol. 49 (Mar. '96) pp. 113-142
> >--Doug
> >Doug Sears dsears@-----.org/~dsears
> >
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