Klarinet Archive - Posting 000424.txt from 2003/10

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] cocabolo wood
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:27:57 -0400

GrabnerWG@-----.com wrote:

> Cocobolo comments:
>
> I routinely make barrels from cocobolo. I like the tone quality that
> results from the finished product better than any other wood I have
> worked with. (No, I am not going to get in the material doesn't
> matter debate, so please let's not go there).
>
> I made a cocobolo barrel last week for a client that was to die for.
> I had a hard time giving it up....it was so beautiful....It's such a
> pretty wood.

Walter, I also am not going to go into the "material doesn't matter"
though you certainly know my views on that subject. But I was asked,
"how can you hold that opinion and then buy a cocobolo wood basset horn?
The answer I gave was exactly what you have said here. It's gorgeous.

This gives rise to the next question: "does the physical beauty of the
instrument affect your playing?", and I am very much of the opinion that
it does. I play better (or think I do) on a thing of beauty than on
something that is, in my eyes, less beautiful. I even play better (or
think I do) when my fingernails are manicured because my hands look
spiffier.

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