Klarinet Archive - Posting 000935.txt from 2000/01

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Greg Smith mouthpieces
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 13:07:01 -0500

This is a very interesting note and central to the FAQ I have been
trying to develop. I accept what Andy says about Greg Smith's
mouthpiece to the extent that he is pleased with the one he got.
There are several directions one can go from here, one of which is
that Andy is recommending this mouthpiece on the basis of one with
which he is happy. That presumes that Greg's mouthpieces will all
produce the same result for you. And if that is true, then I'd like
to buy some stock in his company, for he is going to be a rich man.

Another direction is that no one else will ever like the Greg Smith
mouthpieces that they get, a very unlikely scenario and one that
would be disputed by Andy.

And this leads me to my point, one that I can't yet figure out how
to say intelligently; i.e., to what extent does one person's happiness
with his/her mouthpiece mean anything? The variables are damn near
infinite. First there are those variables involved in the making of
the mouthpiece, and second the variables of the person who will play
it, both physical and psychological.

Obviously one cannot dismiss opinion in this arena, both positive
(as is the case with Andy) and negative. But once stated, what do
these opinions really mean?

I'm not trying to be negative here. But I must have read 500 messages
on KLARINET going back to 1995 saying, "the mouthpiece of XXX is ----."
Fill in the word you wish; i.e., good, bad, great, lousy, magnificent,
terrible, etc. And if I take all these comments and try to make
some direction out of them, I wind up in an Orwellian sink hole.

What I am trying to say (and probably not very well), is that there
doesn't seem to be much real value in such postings. They may make
the one who posts them happy and they may make the mouthpiece maker
very happy, but if I were looking for a mouthpiece (which I am not),
there is not enough meat here to point me in that direction.

Somehow, I come out of this feeling guitly and I have no idea why.

Androyd973@-----.com wrote:
>
> hi all, i just wanted to say that i just received one of greg smith's
> mouthpieces in the mail, and boy does it ever plya nicely!!! I would
> definetely recommend his mouthpieces to anyone in the market for a high
> quality mp.
> thanks
> andy brown
>
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