Klarinet Archive - Posting 000586.txt from 2003/02

From: "pwharris" <pwharris@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Impingo Wood Supply for Clarinets
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:13:32 -0500

Dan,

Quite simply, you are wrong. In a blind test, yes a group of people would
not be able to identify which material is which, but they certainly will be
able to tell differences between the sounds. This has been shown over and
over, but of course there are still some who will not accept what is
demonstrated to them. This is your problem not mine, but I am beginning to
resent you continually stating your opinions as fact.

Paul Harris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Leeson" <leeson0@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] Impingo Wood Supply for Clarinets

> Elizabeth, if your interest in wood as the material for a clarinet is
> related to the inherent beauty of wood, I agree with you that there is
> nothing like it aesthetically. But if you are of the opinion that there
> is an inherent characteristic of wood that produces a better character
> of sound than synthetic materials, then there is a difficutly in
> accepting that position.
>
> We have argued for 10 years on this list about that issue, and the end
> result is that the nature of the sound one gets out of a clarinet is
> independent of the material used to make it. There may be some
> exceptions; i.e., cork might not be a good material, for example. But
> one really has to stretch to find such exceptions.
>
> Bottom line: in a blind test, you (nor I, nor anyone else) could detect
> wood from glass from plastic from metal from hard rubber, from ossified
> twinkie.
>
> Dan Leeson
>
> Elizabeth Berry wrote:
> > I'm not playing a synthetic clarinet! I'll chop down a tree and make my
own,
> > gosh darn it!
> >
> > Elizabeth
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Albert Nemiroff" <anemiroff@-----.net>
> > To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 9:33 PM
> > Subject: Re: [kl] Impingo Wood Supply for Clarinets
> >
> >
> >
> >>Not all of the metal Bb and A soprano clarinets made so many decades
ago
> >>were fit only for lamp making. I had the pleasure of hearing able
players
> >>make very good sound with a couple of them. While I muse about what CNC
> >>applied to metals, plastic, and hard rubber products could afford us,
what
> >>might modern alloys and/or composites, possibly coated with rare earth
> >>ceramics provide. Yet no one is more captivated by the challenge of
> >
> > seeking
> >
> >>the blessings of the spirits in mpingo and Arundo donax.
> >>Al Nemiroff
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