Klarinet Archive - Posting 000590.txt from 2000/03

From: Ken Wolman <ken.wolman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Above average wood
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 17:31:09 -0500

charette@-----.org wrote:

> > I assumed (always dangerous) that as the descriptions of the wood were in
> the one
> > catalogue that they would be comparable.
>
> Most catalogs just re-state the verbiage that the manufacturers supply.

My favorite remains Leblanc's description of the Infinite clarinet
having a "more youthful tone" than the OConcerto model. Youthful tone?
Wazzat? When I was in the 5th grade and they handed me one of those
execrable metal horns to learn on, I had a youthful tone, too. I
squealed like a cat in heat. I suppose using a 43-year-old Centered
Tone means said tone equates to playing like an old fart? Extend that
illogic further: a Bundy student bass clarinet of my acquaintance (in
fact it lives in my house) should say "Peg" at every opportunity, and
that isn't so I can play it while sitting down.

Ken
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