Klarinet Archive - Posting 000037.txt from 2001/05

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] Cracking Clarinets
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 05:18:36 -0400

At 07:19 PM 05/01/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Also knowing the correct cause can help prevent unnecessary guilt
>feelings. I.e. the person who "babies" their horn and takes all the
>precautionary measures for all environmental element opens his/her case
>and finds a crack. Right now this person is going to react "what did I do
>wrong" and believe they overlooked something in their care routine. Now
>they can review their care routine, find that they did everything right,
>and be able to say that this particular horn was simply waiting to crack.

My mother was a big believer in guilt. She could make a person feel guilty
for walking through the door wrong.

I have no problem with someone feeling guilty because they took care of
their horn and it still cracked.

This is what anti-depressants are for.

Best wishes,
Roger Garrett

Roger Garrett
Clarinet Professor
Director, Symphonic Winds
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
Phone: (309) 556-3268
Fax: (309) 556-3121

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

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