Klarinet Archive - Posting 000531.txt from 1999/03

From: "Craig D. Butcher" <cbutcher@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Doing a change from Eb from Bb
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 07:35:49 -0500

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> > He's right. It's not the professional who needs the best equipment, it's
> > people like me. Sabine Meyer would sound great even on my old Bundy,
>

> ... Roger Garrett wrote:

> There are pieces of music that require absolutely a top of the line instrument -
> the
> difficulty of the work might include unusual voicings, pairings, dynamics
> in intonationally challenged areas of the instrument - a student grade
> instrument just would make it that much more difficult to play.

You're right, of course. No one suggests we ought to give middle schoolers top of
the line instruments and force professionals to play on student equipment.
However, even with the best instrument, no one would ever pay to hear me play. But
I'd go and listen to Sabine Meyer or Emma Johnson or that caliber of performer no
matter what they had to use. And any dufus could tell I sound better now with a
decent clarinet. I'll bet it would be a lot harder to tell, except perhaps to the
trained ear, with the professionals.

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