Klarinet Archive - Posting 000412.txt from 2000/12

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] scales
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 17:20:19 -0500

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 13:56:03 -0800 (PST), Bilwright@-----.net said:

> Tony Pay wrote:
>
> > ...given the sheep-like quality of the canonic Klarinet
> > subscriber...
>
> Tony, I'm one of the people who usually pleads for peace here. But you
> always want to "search for the truth." Okay, why is it true that
> Klarinet subscribers are sheep-like? Some of us would like to know.

Just one, on my count, at the moment.

However, I don't think of you as a canonic Klarinet subscriber. In the
metaphor, you'd be a sheep (because you have almost no experience of
clarinet playing) but also a wannabe sheepdog, looking for where he
wants to lead the sheep.

But I actually applaud that in you, both because you're totally open
about it, and because you engage in the discussion.

I do find that you sometimes say 'what is so' when it isn't so -- but
it's so much in the context of what your current ability is that I
haven't the heart to challenge it.

On the other hand, I believe that a lot of this list supports the notion
that there is 'a technical way' to play the clarinet, and that adopting
that 'way' is what our concern should be.

I think that's crap, and to the extent that that notion is followed
here, the followers are sheep.

Our concern should be to represent the music; the technical
considerations are secondary.

Tony
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