Klarinet Archive - Posting 000702.txt from 1999/05

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl]Hans Moennig's solution the Dark Clarinet Tone
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 18:01:14 -0400

On Sat, 15 May 1999, Bill Hausmann wrote:
> I sincerly hope that you are right, and that only extremely small,
> incremental improvements are required by the very top echelon players, and
> that the normal production run clarinet is perfectly adequate for anyone
> else just as it comes from the factory. You wouldn't think so, though, to
> hear all the griping. And I still wonder why, when someone like Tom
> Ridenour can design a better mousetrap, clarinetists don't beat a path to
> his door.

Perhaps the answer to the last question is that there is not a major need
to from players in the field. Those who do not change may be perfectly
happy and successful with their own instruments. Perhaps people don't buy
into the idea that the newer Leblanc designs are any better in all ways
than the standard Buffets. If you believe it is a "better mousetrap" than
buy it - but the reason other clarinetists aren't "beating a path to his
door" is because they don't want to!
Roger Garrett
Professor of Clarinet
Director - Concert Band, Symphonic Winds & Titan Band
Advisor - Recording Studio
Illinois Wesleyan University

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