Klarinet Archive - Posting 000375.txt from 2000/02

From: SoulClarinetAdam@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] A comment
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 19:45:20 -0500

In a message dated 2/8/2000 3:25:12 AM Eastern Standard Time, jnohe@-----.edu
writes:

<<
> I have a professional clarinet-playing friend who used to say that he
> was convinced that somewhere out there was a clarinet that would make
> him play 30% better.

<SNIP>

> I don't believe it.

Hear hear - a truly profound statement. I'll freely admit that I often
toot my own horn (No pun int...ah, forget it) when it comes to my
equipment...but in all truth an honesty, there has been absolutely nothing
more valuable than long tones, articulation excersizes, and the Klose'
mechanical excersizes.

Take the comment however you like, but however you may take it, it's still
the truth: what you got ain't nowhere near as important as what you do
with it.

So fer you yung'uns who are still playing Vitos and Artleys with
symmetricuts...you remember that. You ain't gotta have an Opus or an R-13
to be a better player. If you try hard enough, you can make that horn
sound pretty dangon'ed close to anything that comes with tenon rings.
Just love the music enough to persevere.

J. Shouryu Nohe
http://web.nmsu.edu/~jnohe >>
Dear J. Shouryu,
I have to completely agree with you. I just recently got my wonderful
R-13, which i owe a lot of thanks to this list for the advice i recieved
since that help my parents become convinced. Anyways, to my point, when i
played on my yamah, plastic thing, i sounded pretty good, well atleast i
thought i did, and i really didn't notice a big difference when i went to the
R-13, except for the tension of the keys and i also did notice that i do have
a little bit more ease when i play on my wooden one. The only part i dread is
the breakin' in period, i hate only being able to play it for 15 minutes of a
day, it's killer! Anyways, i just have to agree with what you said, it's not
the instrument its the player that makes the difference!
Adam

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