Klarinet Archive - Posting 000028.txt from 2000/09

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: RE: [kl] What about CD recorders
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 14:11:46 -0400

At 11:11 AM 09/02/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>Some of the stand-alone cd-recorders are *very* good. (Some are pretty bad,
>though). If you get one, you should get a professional one so you don't
>have to deal with copy protection and "audio only" consumer cds. By far,
>the best one on the market is the HHB 850 (runs close to $1000, although I
>know a place that was recently selling thme for $850.) The A-D and D-A
>converters are excellent and it will burn even really crappy media
>reliabily.... I have one and use it in the field with a DAT backup for my
>concert masters. I would stay away from the Tascam 5000 like the plague.
>The Tascam 700 (a pro-sumer deck) is decent, though and it only costs about
>$450. You do need to do a slight modification to disable the consumer
>features.

Benjamin said all the right things. I have both a Tascam 5000 and an HHb
850, and the HHb is heads and tails above the Tascam. I didn't know it was
better to use the DAT as a back up to the CD though - I have been doing it
the other way around.......

Roger

Roger Garrett
Professor of Clarinet
Director, Symphonic Winds
Advisor, IWU Recording Services
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
(309) 556-3268

A Clarinetist's Revenge is sometimes personified by the following excerpt
from the London Daily News, circa 1926:

"The saxophone is a long metal instrument bent at both ends. It is alleged
to be musical. As regards markings, the creature has a series of tiny taps
stuck upon it, apparently at random. These taps are very sensitive: when
touched they cause the instrument to utter miserable sounds suggesting
untold agony. Sometimes it bursts into tears. At either end there is a
hole. People, sometimes for no reason at all, blow down the small end of
the saxophone which then shrieks and moans."

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