Klarinet Archive - Posting 000610.txt from 1999/05

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] re: Moennig Clarinet blown out
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 15:16:25 -0400

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.09
> Subj: [kl] re: Moennig Clarinet blown out

> Sfdr@-----.com
> Subject: Re: [kl]Hans Moennig's solution the Dark Clarinet Tone
> Message-ID: <7c40aab8.246cfb60@-----.com>
> During my repair apprenticeship with W. Hans Moennig, I watched him
> set up and tune over two hundred R-13, A and Bb clarinets to the standards
> of Robert Marcellus. According to Mr. Moennig the A clarinet after his
> professional Set up should play just as even and have resonance equal to that
> of the Bb Clarinet. Since most players have not had the opportunity try an
> authentic Moennig Clarinet, They just accept the inconsistent pitch and
> timbre flaws of a new A as the norm.
>
> --------------------------------------
> I have a student playing on an authentic Moennig Bb Clarinet. It has a 67
> barrel (original). Either the Clarinet is quite blown out, or it never was
> good in the first place. I prefer to believe that it is blown out, as I
> refuse to think that it could have been originally constructed to play that
> badly. The bore must have changed over time. It is very, very stuffy,
> unfocused and uneven blowing - feels like blowing into an elephants trunk.
> I asked a blow out question a few weeks ago. It was unanswered. The
> conflict I figure is that the sellers of used instruments do not want to
> acknowledge blow out, as there would be the possibility that the older
> instruments have it (that's really bad for sales). On the other hand, new
> manufacturers would believe in it, as over time, a new instrument would be
> needed (that's really good for sales).
>
> David Blumberg
> playit@-----.com
> http://www.mytempo.com
> ---------------------------------------------------

David -- what do you mean by the clarinet being "blown out," how
do you conclude that this one suffers under the malady, and what
evidence do you have that clarinets as a class will eventually
all suffer this fatal end?

This is a loaded question.

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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
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