Klarinet Archive - Posting 000883.txt from 1999/05

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Moennig Adjusted Clarinets
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 19:31:56 -0400

At 07:39 AM 5/18/99 -0500, Roger Garrett wrote:
>On Mon, 17 May 1999, Bill Hausmann wrote:
>> Oh, jeez! Do you mean I now have to turn my "wrath" toward the mouthpiece
>> makers, the REAL source of the trouble? :-)
>
>You might be surprised at the enormous variance between "identical"
>finished blanks from the same company. And this includes Zinners. The
>variance in bore is not so great as the variance in the baffle, tip and
>side rails, window size, and throat. Turn your wrath towards the makers
>of the blanks rather than the people who try to correct and make
>consistant the problems of the blanks.
>
>Better yet, why be upset? Not everything in life is going to be perfect
>and up to your standards - sometimes it is better to find positive
>solutions than to direct wrath towards someone.
>
I was hoping that the " " around the word "wrath" would be taken as the
crinkles around my eyes as I smilingly typed it. But now that you bring it
up, is the variation in part because of the same thing you have been
arguing about clarinets -- that since they are EXPECTED to be worked on to
result in a finished product, there is no need to be terribly precise? In
a mouthpiece BLANK, clearly sold as such, I can accept a lot more variation
than in a finished mouthpiece.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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