Klarinet Archive - Posting 000740.txt from 2002/07

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Subj: [kl] Do clarinetists prefer....?
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 09:48:24 -0400

C & B Sabal <jomalu@-----.com> wrote:

> [someone else wrote]

> > Is a clarinetist more likely to...

[snip]

> > but what does everyone else think?

> I'm having a hard time with questions asking us to make sweeping
> generalizations about what a "clarinetist" likes or dislikes.

[snip]

> We can not be defined by what we do but rather by who we are.
>
> I hope that doesn't sound like ranting...apologies if it does.

No, it sounds like very good sense to me.

I have to say that I don't care very much what I 'think' about such
questions, much less what everyone else 'thinks'. And I don't much
care who *likes* what, either. The world is full of such opinions,
mine included, that are of very little interest to anyone else.

If you produce a good *argument* for something, that's different.

Although *amusing* superficiality has its place, of course, by and
large it's more important not to be superficial than it is to be
on-topic, on a list like this.

I'll produce an argument for that, if anyone wants one:-)

Tony

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