Klarinet Archive - Posting 000759.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 18:08:05 -0400

At 08:20 AM 5/16/99 -0500, Roger Garrett wrote:
>On Sun, 16 May 1999, Bill Hausmann wrote:
>> 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!
>
>He didn't say to get it to play right - I don't recall that it didn't play
>right. I recall that he had it customized to fit HIS needs - and other
>players liked it so they asked for the same thing. You can interpret that
>as a design deficiency if you like, but, as I said before, for every 20
>that Moennig did, there were 1000 played on that he didn't do. Your
>conclusions seem a bit extreme to me.
>
That sort of major surgery falls outside the definition of "customization"
to me. Instruments that are that far off should never leave the factory.
But if the modifications were made to correct for the INDIVIDUAL'S unusual
embouchure or some other PERSONAL quirk that affected HIS OWN intonation,
then I WILL accept the label. And more power to him and those who are
talented enough to do the work!

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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