Klarinet Archive - Posting 000467.txt from 2003/05

From: "Matthew Lloyd" <Matthew@-----.uk>
Subj: [kl] RE: overreactions to reed rotating posts
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 13:53:13 -0400

Elise,

As I tried to make clear your post was the one that prompted my
response, which had been building up for a while.

"You" therefore is directed at those that Nancy described (correctly in
my view, as I have already said, as "going through an anally retentive
routine of reed rotation". If the cap fits.....

Matthew

-----Original Message-----
From: EClarinet@-----.com]
Matthew@-----.uk
Subject: overreactions to reed rotating posts

Hi all!

Several people have reacted rather strongly to my post about reed
rotating.
Specifically, Matthew said:

<<<Hold on a tick. You make it sound as if anyone who doesn't follow
your
example is doomed to failure. That no-one could be an even quarter
decent clarinettist unless your strictures were followed. [And, for
clarity, this isn't specifically said to Elise, it's just that I'm
responding to her post].>>>

Who is the "you" being referred to here, if not me? My name is the only
one
mentioned.

And earlier, Nancy expanded on her already-stated opinions about
rotation,
along with personal comments about other posters (me?) such as, "Not
everyone
needs to go through this anally retentive routine of religious reed
ritual",
"to say that one must rotate reeds or he/she will suffer from acute
facial
muscle collapse if they don't, or that they better rotate their reeds or
the
Clarinetist's Rotationary Army will get them, is balderdash", "Maybe I'm

crazy, but there is more to clarineting than sitting and sorting reeds
and
worshipping reed cases and glass plates. Man, get a life!"

I have to say I have been very surprised that what I wrote would
generate
these responses. I was prepared to ignore Nancy's personal comments, but
when
Matthew also reacted, I decided I needed to clarify.

My post was for the purpose of providing reasons for rotating, since I
don't
think the answer, as someone suggested, is obvious at all. The original

question from a student was when to change reeds. Several people offered

suggestions of what they thought was appropriate, several other people
attacked or ridiculed those people, and some people just made jokes that

generated other threads about flavored reeds and whiskey. I wrote to
supply
to the student who asked reasons why it was a good idea to rotate.
Nowhere
did I say what my own routine was....others did this. As to my routine,
I
merely mentioned what kind of reed case I used, and that I changed reeds

during a concert once.

As an ENTJ (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator <A
HREF="http://www.personalitypage.com/">The Personality Page</A> ), I
CAN be
opinionated, and have been on this list on the past, but if you are
reading
into my post what is stated above, then I would hate to see what you did
if I
actually wrote the way you do!

And to the student who asked the original question, and all others out
there,
I hope you can glean the wheat from the chaff in this discussion! :-)

Elise Curran
Orlando
EClarinet@-----.com

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