Klarinet Archive - Posting 000517.txt from 1999/02

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Horwath
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 14:53:39 -0500

On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Roger Garrett wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Bill Hausmann wrote:
> > OK. I'll buy that. Adjustments for the individual player's peculiarities
> > ARE beyond the factory's responsibility. But then they should
> > automatically provide the adjustment service for ALL of their buyers, not
> > just the ones who know Francois Kloc, since they know this problem exists.

My sincere apologies - I snipped this paragraph and forgot the last
sentence which I had intended to comment on.

I don't view the tolerance issues as a problem that exists for Buffet.
Rather, I see it as a service to help provide an instrument that plays in
tolerance for each individual.

Rossi makes a clarinet and adjusts it to the individual. There really is
not much difference between him charging the 45% more for that instrument
than Buffet doing the adjustment after the fact. The end result is the
same.
Roger Garrett
Professor of Clarinet
Director - Concert Band, Symphonic Winds & Titan Band
Advisor - Recording Studio
Illinois Wesleyan University

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