Klarinet Archive - Posting 000717.txt from 1999/05

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] re: that subject
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 01:50:55 -0400

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.39
> Subj: [kl] re: that subject

> Dan replied:
> > Would the Curtis Institute use it for over 75 years if it were a Lemon????
> So far, only Ed Lacy has posted things
> of real value to this discussion. The rest of what I have read is
> medieval and I really thought that witches sank. Perhaps I should concentrate
> more on the wenn found on the chin as greater evidence than the water test.
> And one wonders why some people have difficulty in accepting this sort
> of thing as gospel.
>
> ---------------------------------
>
> My point was that I doubt that Bonade (or any teacher at Curtis) would have
> accepted a Clarinet that played like that as anything but firewood. At some
> point, it must have gone through a change to cause it to play so badly, or
> I would think that Curtis would have discarded it long ago.
>
> David Blumberg
> playit@-----.com
> http://www.mytempo.com
> ---------------------------------------------------

Yes David. That was your point. But in order to do it you had
to sign your speculations with Bonade's name. You don't know
what the circumstances are or anything about the incident, but you
are drawing conclusions about what someone else would have done for
circumstances about which you known nothing.

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