Klarinet Archive - Posting 000563.txt from 2002/04

From: "Forest E. Aten Jr." <forest_aten@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Prestige RC vs. Prestige R13
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 14:50:19 -0400

Sorry...

Psychology Today....man I'm I tired.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Forest E. Aten Jr." <forest_aten@-----.edu>
Subject: Re: [kl] Prestige RC vs. Prestige R13

> Wine tests....
>
> Just published in: Physiology Today.
>
> They colored white wine using red food coloring, then presented this wine
in
> a fancy bottle to a group of wine "experts"....they loved it, using many
of
> the descriptive terms one might expect to hear from the wine "expert".
> Same test later that day with the cheap white wine (in it's original
> bottle). Results in from these same expert judges.......was
> definitive....."this wine stinks"?????
>
> Woops....
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Glen Shannon" <gshannon@-----.com>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 1:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [kl] Prestige RC vs. Prestige R13
>
>
> > This sounds exactly the same as when people talk about wine! The
> > vocabulary is different but they all still mean nothing to me.
> > "Delicate", "robust", "clean finish" etc. Forgive me for being a
> > boor, but I can taste tannins or not, and can judge in a blind test
> > whether a wine is red or white but that's about all.
> >
> > -Glen
> >
> > >Now having said that (and with absolute sincerity, no kidding), I have
> > >to add that I see you as a victim of a disease known as meaningless
> > >clarinet terminologitis. Referring to sound character of a clarinet
> > >with expressions that have little meaning and certainly no definition
> > >whatsoever, you have succumbed to using descriptions that are, in my
> > >opinion, useless.
> > >
> > >One of the things about the character of clarinet sound is that many
> > >clarinetists (and for years, too) have come to speak about it in ways
so
> > >imprecise, so inexact, so totally without substance, that the world has
> > >turned on its head and nice people like you get sucked into the vortex
> > >of believing that there is (in your words) a sound that "is a little on
> > >the 'tinny' or 'thin' side" or a sound that is "thicker," "fatter," or
> > >"darker."
> > >
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