Klarinet Archive - Posting 000161.txt from 2001/09

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Concave versus convex - I did it again!
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 18:30:33 -0400

At 09:58 AM 9/5/2001 -0400, Walter Grabner wrote:
>Clark Fobes was kind enough to point out that in my most recent post,
>where I was trying to clarify waht I had been saying about mouthpiece
>facings, I muddied the water by using the term convex, when I meant concave.
>
>SO -
>
>Walter looks in dictionary:
>
>Convex - Having a surface that curves outward. From Latin; convexus, to
>bring together.
>
>Concave - hollow and curved, like a section of the inside of a sphere.
> From Latin, concavus, hollow.
>
>Maybe now I'll get it right.
>
>Sheeeeesh!

I always remember which one is which by recalling that conCAVE is hollowed
out, like a cave.

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