Klarinet Archive - Posting 000058.txt from 2000/03

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] show of hands....
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 12:54:06 -0500

On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 09:15:47 GMT, I said:

> The difficulty comes when someone wants to make a pronouncement about
> what *someone else should do*. Then we have to do our best to make
> sure that we speak in objective terms about what is objective, whilst
> encouraging the other person to engage in themselves what only they
> can contribute. Mixing the two things only results in confusion.

I should perhaps make it clear that the statement, "I find that
mouthpiece X, with such-and-such dimensions and facing, is the best for
me," is an objective statement. It might even be the most useful sort
of objective statement on this topic.

"Mouthpiece X is the best," is rather, an incomplete statement.

It could *logically* be completed by a characterisation of what 'best'
means in objective terms, by analogy with the concept of length in the
statement, "a standard A clarinet is longer than a standard Bb clarinet
built to A=440", but I think most of us would agree that that's
impossible in actual fact.

Tony
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