Klarinet Archive - Posting 000990.txt from 2000/03

From: "Kevin Fay (LCA)" <kevinfay@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Product Names
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:31:01 -0500

Ed Maurey opined:

<<<Is an R13 that is made made today significantly different from one made
in the 50's or not? If it is significantly different it isn't an R13.
Maybe the Buffet made in the 50's wasn't an R13. They can't be different
and be the same model. Period.>>>

Funny . . . when I was on the road last week I had the opportunity to rent a
Cadillac Sedan DeVille. (For those of you outside the U.S., this is a very
LARGE automobile). It didn't look at all like the one my grandfather bought
in 1958. Must have been made by Martians.

<<<However, it appears to me that Buffet is cynically playing the nostalgia
card to the hilt.>>>

By choosing a name for a product? By calling one they make like the
old-style the "old-style," it would seem to be truth in advertising.

True, the Selmer Signature does indeed have an engraved signature on it --
but:

-- what's an "Infinite"? Or a "Symphonie VII"?

-- Does playing a Leblanc "Spirit" make you religious?

-- Do Getzen Eternas really last forever?

-- Did Vincent Bach hire Stradivarius to make trumpets in Mt. Vernon?

-- What happens if you're Jack Walrath, and play jazz on an Olds Opera?

-- Anyone ever see a Selmer Mark Five?

-- What do they call the *second* Sankyo flute -- everyone seems to own the
"Prima" one?

. . . a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

kjf

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