Klarinet Archive - Posting 000943.txt from 1999/05

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Sneezy Hornography
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 23:12:04 -0400

At 06:31 AM 5/19/99 -0400, Kenneth Wolman wrote:
>At 10:22 PM 5/18/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>I love the term "hornography" but I think it should be reserved
>>for flamebacious discussions such as the one we have been having on
>>"Hans Moennig's solution the Dark Clarinet Tone".
>
>I've probably said in the past that photographers do this too: argue and
>bicker over which camera, lenses, etc., amount to "the best." Among pros,
>Nikon is probably the Buffet of the camera business: high quality but with
>a lot of value-added mystique about it that may or may not have anything to
>do with quality when compared to other high-end brands. I used to live
>next door to a professional catalogue photographer who said the Nikon thing
>was a snowball that simply acquired a life of its own: everyone bought
>Nikons because everyone else bought Nikons before them, and you could
>always go down the hall to the other guy's studio and borrow a freaky lens
>for a special job if one came up. I suppose that makes Rossi's horns the
>equivalent of the Leica; and Selmer, LeBlanc, and Yamaha can fight over who
>gets to be Canon. The word for this (my coinage as far as I know) is
>"equipmentology." At the end of the day, it's silly. NOBODY is going to
>know whether the photo in the magazine was made with a Nikon, Canon, Leica,
>Yashica, Minolta, or grandpa's Korean War-vintage Kodak Signet hauled out
>of the attic. What you see is what matters.
>
>Can the same thing be said for clarinets or, for that matter, any musical
>instrument in the same basic price class? The horn you know is the horn
>you like: you get used to the sound, to how it plays. Is anyone here
>sufficiently attuned to the sound of a particular clarinet brand to listen
>to a Chicago Symphony recording and distinguish Yeh's Yamaha from Combs's
>LeBlanc? All those recordings of the Philadelphia when Gigliotti was
>Principal...did the sound of the instrument scream SELMER at you? It never
>occurred to me that Sabine Meyer plays a Wurlitzer. Gee, Dad....
>
You've made my point much more clearly and cooly than I have so far. Your
analogy is perfect. (Amateur photographer/darkroom rat in a past life and,
yes, a CANON owner!)

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