Klarinet Archive - Posting 000894.txt from 1999/05

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl]Hans Moennig's solution the Dark Clarinet Tone
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 21:54:18 -0400

On Tue, 18 May 1999, Bill Hausmann wrote:
> That's my point. I want to hear from people reporting what I have NOT
> reported or heard yet. So far, all is quiet. Coincidence?

Can't back out of it not - if all you report is what others say - what
does that make you? And then, to argue it against what others say when
they have been playing the instrument for over 20 years......again, what
does that say for you??

> I have quoted assertions by others and have actively solicited anecdotal
> evidence that other brands of clarinets also routinely receive major
> service to correct or "customize" them before use.

Name them. Prove they haven't a bias or a $interest.

> I have not presented
> facts because I am still GATHERING them.

Yet you argue like you have.....and you want others to believe your
assertions with no facts.

> I decided, based upon one I played in 1972 or '73 that
> I did not care for them, or at least that one, and bought a Selmer instead,
> which I DID like.

Wow...you tried one. Very persuasive. What about the people who have
tried literally hundreds? Who should we believe.....you or them?

> That is the way it is supposed to work. Had that Buffet
> back then played like the last one I played, things might even have turned
> out differently.

And that's fine....fair enough. But, since it dien't, you bad mouth a
company with no facts, no personal experience in over 26 years, and you
want us to listen to what you have to say?

> But I would still be upset to hear people (***OTHER***
> people, remember) talking about how there are design flaws in my horn. I
> would wonder why MY company didn't take care of the problems, if they are
> so well known, especially since they mostly seem minor and, to someone not
> well versed in manufacturing tooling, easy to correct.

seems........problems........etc. Then you assume they are easy to
correct (whatever the problems described to you that you have never
experienced are) and then make claims we are supposed to accept because of
your vast experience.

> I only KNOW that
> the recent R-13 was repaired because of my job. If I had been just a
> customer off the street, the experience would have had no downside. But
> the knowledge is relevant in this discussion, even if anecdotal.

You'll have to explain the above sentence to me. I've read it several
times and have no idea what it means.

> Dispensing misinformation is the LAST thing I intend to do.

Right......ok.....I believe you. I'll go back and look at all the stuff
you have written and say.....gee....he was dispelling information...not
dispensing it!

> My intention
> is to DISPELL it. But, really, when you start arguing about my TAGLINE...

Oh my, I said something about his tagline....in jest and in
mockery....and, oh no! He is basing an entire argument about Buffet R-13
clarinets on that one thing.

Bill......you really need to lighten up. You have no evidence except a 26
year old example - isolated - and a bunch of comments from a couple of
people. By the way - how's the Selmer working out that you bought?? Any
problems, defects, pitch issues. Which instrument was it by the way?
Roger Garrett
Professor of Clarinet
Director - Concert Band, Symphonic Winds & Titan Band
Advisor - Recording Studio
Illinois Wesleyan University

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