Klarinet Archive - Posting 000848.txt from 1999/05

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl]Hans Moennig's solution the Dark Clarinet Tone
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 03:19:27 -0400

At 09:59 PM 5/17/99 -0500, Roger Garrett wrote:
>You can do whatever you want Bill. But just because someone has
>customization work done and just because you can't get the horn to play in
>tune or blow the way you want doesn't make the horn defective.
>
No, but it makes the horn a poor choice for ME. I should search for one
that DOES play in tune and blow the way I want it to, rather than rework
the square peg to fit my round hole, just as long as it has the right brand
name stamped on it.

>> I have also said that Buffet is certainly ONE OF the top clarinet makers,
>> and that the last R-13 I played sounded and played beautifully. The
>> specific alleged design flaws, like the register key misplacement, came
>> from other posters, not me.
>
>You simply took that information and made an enormous leap to a faulty
>conclusion. So?
>
I took the information that there were design flaws and made the enormous
leap to the conclusion that there were design flaws. Neat trick, eh?

>> If the instruments are deliberately left borderline unfinished ("tolerances
>> left a bit short"), with the assumption that final on-the-spot adjustments
>> like a bit of undercutting are INTENDED and EXPECTED to be made to fit them
>> to the purchaser, at no additional cost, including transportation, so be
>> it. In fact, such attention to the customer would make a great sales tool.
>> (M. Kloc will be a busy man, though!) I think we have been here before,
>> but I get the impression that, while some of the pros know this, most
>> amateurs do not realize that such service is available (and admittedly, may
>> not benefit from it, but the offer should still be CLEARLY made to ALL
>> buyers).
>
>All they have to do is read the literature that comes with the instrument
>Bill. Do you know that they include this information with the new
>instruments?
>
Good. It should be there. But how available is the service really out in
the hinterlands?

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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