Klarinet Archive - Posting 000776.txt from 2000/11

From: GrabnerWG@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Selmer buys UMI
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 14:27:31 -0500

In a message dated 11/23/00 4:10:38 PM Central Standard Time,
Tony@-----.uk writes:

<< and am still
partly of the opinion that I played better on an old E. J. Albert Boehm
system clarinet than any of the modern Buffets I've used.

That makes even stronger the point that clarinets don't really need
further development. >>

Tony.....

Your very example disproves your logic. If your E. J. Albert Boehm system
clarinet was so good, maybe someone needs to resurrect the design, add
whatever more recent improvements and make yet a "better" clarinet.

All I know is that, whenever someone says, we have reached the pinnacle, in
any human endevor, they are usually proved wrong in a very few years.

I'm not going to look up the quote, but there is a famous one, made by the
head of the U'S" Patent Office, on or around 1900, who said that everything
that needed to be invented, had already been invented.

Or, how about the founder of IBM, who saw no future in computers? Who thought
that there was a world market for about 10 computers?

Combining the world of electronics and the clarinet could give us astonishing
results. How about a register key that senses instantaneously the pitch you
want to play, and adjusts the opening, like the diaphragm of a camera, and
gives exactly the correct size speaker hole for that pitch?

Guy Legere has used CNC technology to produce his synthetic reeds. Do you
think he is going to stop? Maybe in a year, maybe next week, he will produce
a reed that is BETTER than any cane reed we could possibly find......

The possibilities are endless..............awaiting only our imaginations.....

Walter

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