Klarinet Archive - Posting 000125.txt from 2001/10

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] Is There Moderator--and other topics
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 04:20:23 -0400

At 07:41 PM 10/05/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Seriously guys. Your argument is YOURS and though some may enjoy the
>bantering back and forth, it really is NOT related to, or needed, here on
>this list. I think I saw a "I Hate Your =#$%#% Guts" list when I was on
>America Online. Maybe you two can join that list and bash each others
>brains in.

Robert,

I appreciate your response here. Let me ask you something. If someone
posted something about you that was not true - at least in terms of the
assumptions made - what would you do? If you emailed the person privately
and asked them to take it off line to work things out and they never
responded but continued to say thing like that - what would you do?

Just asking!

>I just received my "Reed Well". Anyone have any opinions about this
>"thing"? It does what it claims to do, and I did not doubt it would. It
>holds the reeds against the sides through a kind of suction created by the
>water and the flats are numbered. I don't really do much work on my
>reeds, but I do appreciate the convenient means of getting them wet and
>keeping track of strengths without writing on them in any way.

I have one of these - only because I wrote a university grant a couple of
years ago for reed equipment and I wanted to use the rest of the grant up -
and it was the right price. I do like the reed making machines we
purchased - and I have to spend more time with them. Too much time with
woodworking. Frankly - I never use the Reed Well for anything but holding
a lot of water - which I then pour into my shot glasses when the water gets
old and disgusting and has to be changed. I like shot glasses because they
seem to be about the right depth and width to hold 5-7 reeds and soak them
up just right!

>I tend to be one of those who likes to play on a number of reeds of at
>least *some* varying strengths. When the performance day comes, I have a
>variety of reeds to choose from depending on the weather that day. Has
>worked so far.

This is what I do also - but primarily because it keeps my embouchure
adapting rather than getting used to one reed. It also allows reeds to
break in and either become good, great, ok - or just rejects - and I can
tell better after they have been played for so long which will be reliable
in a particular room and which ones will not.

Of course, this post is just a response to a question about a technical
issue - this doesn't mean that I don't have anything musical inside of me -
just that I'm trying to answer a question asked. No insults about the
question, and no "why don't you think about the musical qualities of the
reed and how such and such will allow you to interpret such and such in the
way that the composer inended?" LOL.......just kidding folks. It's been a
long day.

Best wishes,
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

"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me,
this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very
best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until
the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't
amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, 10 angels swearing I
was right would make no difference."
-Abraham Lincoln

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