Klarinet Archive - Posting 000802.txt from 1999/05
From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl]Hans Moennig's solution the Dark Clarinet Tone
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 07:59:01 -0400
At 08:22 PM 5/16/99 -0500, you wrote:
>On Sun, 16 May 1999, Bill Hausmann wrote:
>> Customizing definitely DOES NOT mean rebuilding the clarinet or car to make
>> it perform the way it was DESIGNED to, or reasonably SHOULD HAVE BEEN
>> designed to in the first place.
>
>Please give us the evidence you have that shows you know how it was
>designed and why everyone who goes to a technician for the alleged
>"rebuilding" was unhappy with the horn they purchased.
>
>Until you can do that, your argument is specutlative, emotional, and based
>on nothing but pure fiction.
>
Yes, I am guilty of making the ridiculous assumption that the instruments
in question were designed to play with good tone and correct intonation and
proper mechanical and acoustical function. So sue me. If they really
perform in this manner, rebuilding should be unnecessary. The need for
rebuilding strongly suggests to me that something that SOMETHING was not
satisfactory. No great leap of logic required.
I think what we are arguing about is purely a matter of degree. I have
never said, implied, or suggested that any major manufacturer of clarinets
is building junk, and in fact, have on several occasions DENIED that I
think that is true. We also seem to disagree on just how much changing
constitutes "rebuilding." Changing the positions and sizes of all the tone
holes certainly qualifies, though, and should be unnecessary in a correctly
designed instrument. Swapping a few corks for teflon, adjusting spring
tensions, even using cork pads for the upper joint, etc., are post-factory
customizing options and cause me no problem at all.
Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.
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