Klarinet Archive - Posting 000759.txt from 1999/12

From: LeliaLoban@-----.com
Subj: [kl] A faq for klarinet
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 10:15:17 -0500

Mark Charette wrote,
>Your posts are _not_ public domain; even though they are archived for
reference they may not be used for any purpose other than general reference
without the poster's explicit written permission. This has been researched in
other mailing lists; posters have the right to their material even though
it is distributed in public forum.>

>That is one of the reasons that some very good posts do not appear on
www.sneezy.org/clarinet - the author has not granted permission for me to
publish the material, and one of the reasons I check many sites on the
Internet for misuse of the material available on www.sneezy.org .>

Thanks, Mark. Your scrupulousness about copyright and your careful
maintenance of www.sneezy.org make it the best resource of information about
clarinets on the Internet. I encourage people to contribute to the FAQ for
this list and to let www.sneezy.org archive other material, to make the site
even better.

One suggestion about the FAQ: In the interest of actually getting the job
done, instead of bogging down in details and nitpicking, IMHO it would be
best to keep things short and simple, at least for now. We can always expand
the document later. For instance, newcomers to the list often ask, "Which
clarinet is the best?" We could go ring-around-the-rosy on that perennially
exasperating topic for weeks (typically, at least one or two of the usual
suspects on the list will answer with theme and variations on, "What a stupid
question!"), but for the FAQ, I suggest we stick to the obvious, along the
lines of, "There's no such thing as one clarinet that's 'best' for everybody.
Many professional clarinetists play the Buffet R-13. Other excellent
choices for advanced musicians include the professional models from Selmer,
Leblanc, Rossi, Patricola and Yamaha [and we'd probably need to include model
names, which others would know better than I do]. Good clarinets for
beginners include the Leblanc Vito" [and so forth...]. I think we should
treat the whole FAQ the same way. If we're planning to repeat it here on the
list once a month or so, it shouldn't bloat into an encyclopedia or it will
become a nuisance for the regulars who subscribe in Digest form.

IMHO, a FAQ works best when it covers no more than about a dozen topics, with
no more than a brief paragraph per topic. Add a link to the longer articles
already available on the web site or elsewhere on the 'Net. The FAQ might
also include a brief list of good books about the clarinet, such as _The
Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet_, and a list of traditional,
non-controversial pedagogical materials, such as the Klose studies. Save the
controversies for thrashing out on the list itself.

My two cents....

Lelia
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