Klarinet Archive - Posting 000738.txt from 1999/05

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Another perspective on blow out
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 06:02:41 -0400

I suspect the player will deteriorate far more rapidly and to a greater
extent than the instrument. (LOL)

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

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From: Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Date: Saturday, May 15, 1999 9:34 PM
Subject: [kl] Another perspective on blow out

>It seems to me that a part of the phenomenon that has not been
>discussed at all, are the physical changes to the human body as
>one gets older. Consider a person of 25 buying a fine instrument
>and maintaining it satisfactorily for 40 or more years. At age
>65, if there is an assertion that the instrument has deteriorated,
>might that not have to be understood in terms of the physical
>condition of the player? Has that person had all his/her teeth
>removed? Is there evidence of any lung problem? Would not
>stomach cancer or an ulcer of the stomach affect breathing which
>in turn give the appearance of the clarinet having diminished
>capacity.
>
>So is it the clarinet or the player growing worse?
>
>
>
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>Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
>leeson@-----.edu
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