Klarinet Archive - Posting 000897.txt from 2003/08

From: "Lelia Loban" <lelialoban@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Market dominance
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 10:34:16 -0400

Tony Pay wrote,
>A real musician is true to himself or herself, like a
>real scientist. What do we think of 'scientists' who
>'sell themselves'?

Exactly. As long as musicians honestly believe they're playing the
instruments that suit them the best, I'm in favor of giving those
instruments good publicity; and I see nothing wrong with this publicity
extending to paid endorsements, as long as they reflect honest satisfaction
with the product. In the cleanest version of this contract, the company
discovers that a musician uses the company's instrument regularly, and then
the company asks the musician, "Since you use it, would you like to endorse
it?"

On the dirtier side of that fence, my husband, who has worked for the U. S.
Environmental Protection Agency (as a career employee, never as a political
appointee) since 1975, frequently encounters scientists who sell
themselves, most often by accepting grants from industries that then expect
and receive experimental results that support their sales pitches and their
legal briefs. He's got a simple name for scientists who falsify or sex up
their data, or conceal unfavorable data:

Whores.

Maybe there are a few of those in the music business, too. There's
probably no profession completely free of "the oldest profession."

Lelia Loban
E-mail: lelialoban@-----.net
Web site (original music scores as audio or print-out):
http://members.sibeliusmusic.com/LeliaLoban

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