Klarinet Archive - Posting 000782.txt from 1999/05

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl]Hans Moennig's solution the Dark Clarinet Tone
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 01:39:57 -0400

On Sun, 16 May 1999, Bill Hausmann wrote:
> If a player wants the horn -- in your own words -- "completely changed -
> thereby altering the entire design," then my question is, "Why did he chose
> that instrument in the first place?" Are all the other potential
> selections that much worse? If a clarinet needs THAT much fixing, then it
> IS a bad horn, and my logic is just fine.

Ask him......don't make silly conclusions based on silly ideas. I don't
know why he chose it - and neither do you! You suppose, conclude, assume
that the horn is bad because he chose it and decided to change it.
Hogwash. You probably also believe the world is flat because people
believe it too!

> Let me reiterate my position, for those who may think I just have a thing
> against Buffet and are rallying to the defense of their favorite brand on
> principle: Buffet makes fine instruments. So do several other
> manufacturers. But I object to the excessive pressure in the professional
> community, especially among teachers, to force students to consider ONLY
> the Buffets, because they are the only TRUE Holy Grail of clarinets.

And exactly what does this have to do with the premise you have been
arguing? Absolutely nothing. You are trying to tie two completely
unrealted issues together. It appears to be a prejudice - but I of
course couldn't know that!

> I am
> also afraid that the Boosey and Hawkes people may be resting on their
> laurels, with the help of this pressure. The last R-13 I played (the last
> one we had in stock after dropping our Buffet dealership) was an excellent
> playing and beautiful sounding instrument -- but only AFTER our repair shop
> had fixed several glaring problems with it!

And now, we see, there is evidence to support your hidden adgenda.
Roger Garrett
Professor of Clarinet
Director - Concert Band, Symphonic Winds & Titan Band
Advisor - Recording Studio
Illinois Wesleyan University

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