Klarinet Archive - Posting 000565.txt from 1999/07

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: [kl] From Ken Wolman, whose ISP has messed up yet again ...
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 22:00:44 -0400

> Subject: Re: [kl] Why I don't frequent my local music stores ...
> At 07:49 PM 7/18/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >Statements from more than one music store in my area. The quotes are from
> >memory, and may not be 100% precise, but they're pretty close:
> >
> >1) "You want to try a mouthpiece out before you buy it? You must be
> >kidding!"
> >2) "Leblancs are no good. Professionals only use Selmers or Yamahas."
> >(Funny, all they had were Selmers & Yamaha.)
>
> ...etc., etc.
>
> I've also been in my neighborhood store. "You have any #2 reeds for a
> soprano sax?" Guy looked at me like I stepped out of the Mother Ship. He
> rummaged around in a drawer full of loose reeds and finally dug up a
couple
> of Rico Grant Concerts. "These the right thing?" he asked me. "Look like
> it," I said, "they're real small and not long enough to be clarinet
> reeds." His storage was abysmal. The idea he didn't know what he had in
> stock was even more interesting. But boy, what a supply of guitars and
> drums....
>
> Then again, a "big store," i.e. Sam Ash, was where a salesman told me I
> could not put tenor sax reeds on a bass clarinet mouthpiece, but I could
do
> it the other way around. Duh. I don't own a tenor sax, fella.... And
> tell that to the bass clarinet mouthpiece. I suppose positions can be
> espoused from ignorance in any venue you can name. This guy didn't say
> what he said because Ash doesn't carry all sorts of tenor sax reeds: he
> said it because he didn't know what he was talking about, and he said it
in
> a store where some of his customers happen to be professionals, not just
> techwriters on their lunch break.
>
> Ken
>
> Ken Wolman kwolman@-----.net
> "From the Meadowlands":http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Gallery/1649
> "For every complex problem there is a solution that is simple,
> neat, and wrong."--H. L. Mencken

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