Klarinet Archive - Posting 000638.txt from 1999/12

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Quick question
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 22:01:07 -0500

--- "David B. Niethamer" <dnietham@-----.edu> wrote:

> Then I read "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Robert Pirsig
> makes the point that, if you really care about something, you should
> learn how it works, and how to keep it in terrific shape, because no
> one else will care for it as well as you will. I would think this would
> apply to a person's musical instrument as much if not more than to a
> motorcycle.

Well, I didn't want to emphasize my severe case mechanical incompetence.
I read Pirsig's book as well and agree with the principal you repeated,
but it takes time to develop that kind of comfortability, more so if you
are just not the mechanical type to begin, which I'm not. Yeah, of course
I can do an emergency change of a tenon cork or pop a spring back into
place, but for anything beyond that I'll ignorantly send my instrument
away to one of the better techs in the country, knowing that even in
the tenon cork department they will do a better job than I.

-- Neil
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