Klarinet Archive - Posting 000733.txt from 1999/05

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl]Hans Moennig's solution the Dark Clarinet Tone
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 04:27:02 -0400

At 04:50 PM 5/15/99 -0500, Roger Garrett wrote:
>On Sat, 15 May 1999, Bill Hausmann wrote:
>> >David, Very well said. The fact that these players along with Ralph
McLane,
>> >Bob McGennis, and Bonade all had autographed photos holding
Buffet-Moennig
>> >clarinets, speaks very highly of the R-13's playing potential. Such
Photos
>> >lined the walls of the Moennig shop starting in 1926 to 1988.
>> >
>> But, you see? Moennig had to be contacted to finish the job Buffet
>> started! Who does the work on Selmers, Leblancs, and Yamahas to make them
>> play correctly on a professional level?
>
>I guess it depends on their point of view. Many fine players did not have
>their Buffet clarinets worked on by Moennig - mine never was - and it
>plays fine.
>
No, but it WAS worked on by Brannen, right?

>The same people work on Leblancs, Yamahs and Selmers to get them to play
>at peak as well - peak being defined as for the individual. Brannen has
>worked on many of my students' Selmers and Leblancs...
>
That answers the question. I just wondered why it had not been mentioned
before.

>I'm still trying to see the problem. If the players mentioned above
>wanted their instruments worked on for specific reasons, that's fine.
>That doesn't mean the instrument was inferior to begin with. Perhaps
>that's where the rub is for you - that you conclude that if a person pays
>more to have work done, that they must have felt their instrument was
>inferior, problematic, second rate, or perhaps even inappropriate for
>professional use. That seems to me to be a fairly large jump in terms of
>conclusions.
>
The story (I forget who posted it) of the corrections needed to get a
Buffet A clarinet right, involving cutting off one end and extending the
other, seemed like evidence enough. That would qualify as correcting a
serious design deficiency, not just "fine tuning." If this is, in fact, an
extremely rare situation, then maybe I am a lathered up over nothing. If
the whole lot of them requires that sort of attention to play correctly,
then there is a production problem that needs attention immediately!

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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