Klarinet Archive - Posting 000324.txt from 2003/09

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] C clarinet intonation problems
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 12:24:47 -0400

Forest=A0Aten wrote:

> Clarinets are machines....and can be
> quantified. It's the player that is difficult to put
> in a box.....

At what point (if any) do you feel that a machine becomes too complex to
be quantifiable? Current science & technology can't handle the
'simple' case of Three Bodies, much less all the bodies that interact in
a column of vibrating air. Faced with such complexity, I think it is
quite reasonable to say "This clarinet doesn't play right for me"
without being able to quantify the exact cause.... which is what I heard
in Nancy's words.

(I will avoid the related topic, which has caused wars, of whether the
human body is a machine and therefore would be quantifiable if it were
less complex.)

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