Klarinet Archive - Posting 000907.txt from 1999/05
From: "Ed Wojtowicz" <ewoj@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl]a parable: Hans Moennig's solution the Dark Clarinet Tone
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 10:59:42 -0400
IF YOU TWO DON'T STOP IT RIGHT NOW, I'M PULLING OVER AND TURNING RIGHT
AROUND. I DON'T CARE HOW MUCH YOUR MOTHER SCREAMS AND YELLS, THIS WILL BE
THE LAST TIME I TAKE YOU ANYWHERE!!!
Meanwhile:
Roger: "he hit me!!!"
Bill:"he hit me first, he was on my side"
Roger: "Was not"
Bill: "Was too"
Roger: "Was not"
Bill: "Was too"
(author's note: repeat ad nauseum)
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>From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl]Hans Moennig's solution the Dark Clarinet Tone
>Date: Wed, May 19, 1999, 5:46 AM
>
> At 08:54 PM 5/18/99 -0500, Roger Garrett wrote:
>
>>> 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 was what I had available to me at that time. Those who have tried
> hundreds and made their selection on that basis, WHATEVER the selection may
> be, should be be believed that the clarinet they selected was the best one
> for them, as long as they did not limit their search to one brand due to
> the bias of their teachers, etc.
>
>
>>> 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?
>>
> I'm not badmouthing them. I want to know if the unflattering comments I
> have heard about some of their products are limited to those products, or
> are endemic to clarinets in general. So far, I have heard a lot of silence
> regarding the competition.
>
>
>>> 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.
>>
> It means that the repairs were professionally done. There was no tell-tale
> indication that anything had been done. I only knew that repairs had been
> made because the shop told me so. If it had been in that condition when it
> originally arrived at the store, there would be no cause to beef.
>
>
>>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?
>>
> At the risk of drawing out just the sort of information I have been
> seeking, it is a 1971 Series 10 (pre-10S, 10G designations). Nothing has
> been done to it other than normal maintenance over the last 26 years. No
> complaints.
>
>
>
> Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
> 451 Old Orchard Drive http://www.concentric.net/~bhausman
> Essexville, MI 48732 http://members.wbs.net/homepages/z/o/o/zoot14.html
> ICQ UIN 4862265
>
> If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.
>
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