Klarinet Archive - Posting 000984.txt from 2000/01

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Thoughts about a clarinet FAQ
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 08:38:31 -0500

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From: "Daniel Leeson" <leeson0@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] Thoughts about a clarinet FAQ

>
>
> "Dee D. Hays" wrote:
> >
> > Perhaps we are trying to go too deeply into the subject. The type of
information that most people want seems to fall into categories like this.
>
> Dee, while you may be right, I sent out a detailed description of what
> the FAQ should contain and no one said boo. Now, after collecting for 6
> weeks and finding out that it is fuzzy as all get out, it is difficult
> to change directions (though I am not unwilling to do so).
>
> The important thing here is that no information is not necessarily a bad
> thing. There is something of value in the fact that this is a very
> fuzzy subject and that alone is worth saying.
>
> On the other hand, no one, absolutely no one, provided any data
> whatsoever that would allow me to create a FAQ that fits the criteria
> you described. I suggest, for the moment, that such data does not
> exist. If it did, and if I had it, that would be the FAQ. The fact
> that I don't causes me to thing more to the possibility that there is no
> universal consensus on the subject as opposed to the possibility that
> people are simply too lazy to submit it.
>
> I find it revalatory that mouthpiece wisdom is so vague. That is very
> important data from my perspective and should not be thought of as a bad
> thing.

I too watched all the replies with interest. Mulling over the replies is
what led me to suggest a new direction since the old one seemed to be going
nowhere.

The only information that I have seen on the things that I included on that
list are some tables of tip openings in catalogs. But perhaps our
mouthpiece gurus could contribute something to this simpler list.

It certainly isn't an easy chore.

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

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