Klarinet Archive - Posting 000129.txt from 2001/05

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] Reed Balance
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 18:59:44 -0400

At 10:44 PM 05/03/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>Someone in private email said that a book about reeds by Kalman Opperman
>had, on the contrary, been very useful to him.
>
>Perhaps what I wrote seemed to him to contradict that. But that wasn't
>my intention.
>
>If anyone, after thinking about it, still doesn't understand what I
>meant by my post, I'll spell it out.
>
>Tony

I would like clarification on one thing however. That is - if someone
wrote you privately, and no one on the list asked about your intention, why
on earth are you asking if anyone didn't understand it? Is it because you
don't want to be misunderstood? Your post above indicates that if a
misunderstanding might have taken place, it is the reader's fault - not
your's. Now I'm just guessing here, but it seems as though you wrote it in
such a way as to purposefully be challenged so that you could, in fact,
"spell it out."

I'm happy to be wrong about this. No offense will be taken if you say that
I am reading too much into it.

BTW, I'm not asking for you to spell it out - just if it was your intention
to be asked for clarification.

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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