Klarinet Archive - Posting 000758.txt from 2001/01

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] scary turn of discussion: Mouthpieces
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:04:20 -0500

At 08:55 AM 1/23/01 -0500, you wrote:
>I have been following this discussion, and it has gone in a scary direction.
>
>As a very experienced engineer, I am painfully aware of lot sample
>variances. I expect then, and through a number of explicit (sample and
>reject) and implicit (Taguchi) techniques attempt to mitigate the AFFECT
>of the variations from one application to another.
[SNIP}
>What has me non-plussed is the continual claim by the veterans here and on
>alt.music.clarinet that the variations are so wide as to make any claims
>about a model useless.

I truly wish that the blanks I receive - whether they be Babbitt, Zinner,
or Sumner - were consistent. Alas, they do not have the engineering
tolerances that one could get from steel or metal alloy. This is injection
moulded hard rubber - and it will cool differently for each blank - even if
it is in a 12-blank mold.

Sincerely,
Roger Garrett

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

"A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes
another's."
Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825)

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