Klarinet Archive - Posting 000934.txt from 2000/01

From: GrabnerWG@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Kenny G & Stoltzman & reeds & products, etc.
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 12:13:03 -0500

Tom Pulwaski says:

<<I will say this for me, to try a mouthpiece at this point takes me damn near a month. In a few hrs. I might be able to decide if a mouthpiece is worth that amount of commitment, but until I go through a cycle of reeds and different playing situations, I can't tell.>>

Tom, I find this to be so true, a cycle of reeds AND playing in different venues. I played on one mouthpiece recently, that I loved at home, got rave comments about at a chamber rehearsal, and (to me) sounded like crap in a large concert hall~!!!!!!

<< we are sitting at the dawn of a "new millennium" there is going to be new things for us to play with and on. If we comment on some of these things lets
try to employ at least a little scientific method, and state opinions as opinions and not fact! >>

Tom, I agree so much with this. I was really unhappy to hear the recent negative comments about Morgan mouthpieces. I have never played on them myself, but I have heard many, many good things about them. It's a pity to disparage a man's life work like this. (the power of the internet in situations like this is frightening)

Also, so much of this is interdependent. I have a mouthpiece that I dislike when I use my Moennig barrel. When I use the old fairly cylindrical barrel that came with my Buffet, it SINGS.

Does the mouthpiece suck? Or only when it's played with a piece of equipment it was never designed to be used with?

What should we then say of the maker? He's terrible? He's wonderful? A fairer evaluation might be considered.

As for Kenny G, and Stoltzman.....more power to them... I wish I had their drive, energy, ambition, AND talent. Also, to me, Kenny G. is presenting a Commercial product, not an artisitc product. I'm sure he can play the Creston ..but who's gonna play that on the weather channel?

Walter
..stepping down off soapbox

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