Klarinet Archive - Posting 000934.txt from 2000/03

From: Shouryu Nohe <jnohe@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] New member with Buffet quality question
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 20:55:25 -0500

On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Buckman, Nancy wrote:

> Mr. Nohe,

Oh geez, please don't call me that. You guys know I don't even have a
friggin degree yet.

> Never would I base a judgement on a tangible item and the service supplied
> with it with such a cavalier attitude. How could you possibly know how many
> of one vendor's stock is more defective than another's?

I DON'T know. I thought I make this inherently clear in my post with
those cute little words like 'may,' and 'perhaps,' and 'I'd like to think
no,' and 'I don't know.'

Obviously not. I guess it's true that people never read EVERYTHING, they
just read the bad stuff they see. Maybe I should stop reading the news
paper.

> How would you feel
> if I posted to the list and said that I had friends who attended three or
> four your orchestra's concerts and based on what they heard coming from the
> clarinet section (of which a good percentage of the playing is yours) the
> orchestra, in general, stinks and the clarinet section, in particular, is
> appalling?

I would want to know why they said what they said, and what specifically
they found wrong with the playing, so I could take it into account and add
that to critique of myself to see how it fits with any outside
circumstances.

Hmm, oh wait, I did that in my post. I gave outside factors such as
climate and volume of sale to supplement my friend's WWBW theory. If said
supplements did ANYTHING for said theory, they debunked it! The bell
curve theory, however, I still think is perfectly valid, and make no
apologies for, because it doesn't just apply to WWBW, and therefore is NOT
an attack on WWBW, if you so take it as an attack. If it is an attack,
then it 's an attack on Buffet, LeBlanc, etc, for making suck a bell curve
and supplying retailers with said products.

> I think a step back and an apology might be the courageous thing
> to do.

Hey, I apologize for the mentioning of selling lousy clarinets to lousy
climates; I readily admit that was a pretty crappy move on my part. I
should know better than to spread something that I myself have trouble
believing. For that, yeah, I'm sorry. That was an honest blunder on my
part, with no malice ever intended.

By the way, (*wink wink*), our orchestra clarinets kick ass, as long as
I'm not playing. Seriously. If I'm playing bass clarinet, we do fine.
But if I play third, suddenly, everything goes to hell.
Seriously...Festive Overture...bleaaaach! So during opening soli I sat
out...If I HAD played, no doubt your friends, along with everyone ELSE in
the hall, would have PLENTY to say! *grin*

J. Shouryu Nohe
http://web.nmsu.edu/~jnohe
Professor of SCSM102, New Mexico State Univ.
"I don't know, and I don't have an opinion." - Jet Black

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