Klarinet Archive - Posting 000516.txt from 2003/07

From: "Jay Webler" <webler@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] B45 strikes again
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 23:29:50 -0400

This should have read:

I'm sure it's not so much merchandising strength as it is the misconception
that bigger is better.

That's what happens when you sit in playing be-bop drums. The brains just
get scrambled.

Jay Webler

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Webler" <webler@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] B45 strikes again

> I'm sure it's merchandising strength some as the misconception that bigger
> is better. The B45 is often
> chosen by Band Directors because it is "louder" but being louder does not
> necessarily equate with
> getting the sound out of the Clarinet into to the room. I have played
with
> many who do have
> a B45 whose sound does not get passed the end of there Bell even though
they
> are louder.
>
> Jay Webler
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ormondtoby Montoya" <ormondtoby@-----.net>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 2:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [kl] B45 strikes again
>
>
> > My teacher at the time actually took my B-45 away from me and told me to
> > buy something else instead. Until it arrived, I used the Yamaha
> > plastic mouthpiece that came with my student horn, which still sounds
> > reasonably OK to me today.
> >
> > (She returned my B45 when she saw that I had actually taken her advice,
> > I have three B45's - one refaced and one with a different exterior angle
> > - gathering dust now. When I offered to donate them to other students
> > on tight budgets, she threatened to confiscate them again rather than
> > allowing me to give them away.)
> >
> > It's merchandising strength that spreads so many B45's across the land,
> > IMO.
> >
> >
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