Klarinet Archive - Posting 000037.txt from 2003/12

From: "David Glenn" <maestrodavidglenn@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Sex museum
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 18:26:41 -0500

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DATE: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 10:03:31
From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
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>Now that I have your attention, let me talk about an interesting article
>in the paper today about a study of the sound character produced by
>Stradivarius violins.
>
>According to the latest poop, the issue of varishes and/or time are less
>important that the wood because all the Strads were made from trees
>harvested at a period that allowed certain environmental factors to
>influence the wood through cold winters and cool summers. Wood taken
>from periods where this phenomenon did not occur are said to be of
>poorer quality.
>
>None of this has to do with clarinets of course, because the body of the
>violin is part of the sound production process, which is not the case to
>that degree with the clarinet. It is the player's body that make the
>equivalent contribution, and that brings up the matter of sex.
>
>Is there a sex museum somehwere? There is a stripper's museum in the
>Mohave desert which I pass when I drive to Barstow, California (which is
>right next to Hinckley, CA made famous in the movie "Erin Brokovich."
>Last year I spent $82,543 on entrance fees to the stripper museum, and
>each year there is a stripper's contest in which the now 137 year old
>Tempest Strom still particpates. She drives me mad!!
>--
>Dan Leeson
>leeson0@-----.net
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I know there are many theories about the Strads. My friend Georg Ignazius who invented Resonance Spectral Tuning claims that it is the exact proportions which make the Strad what it is. He has done some work on this and demonstrated repeatable differences at the Fraunhofer Institut I think it was. He did some barrels and bells for my clarinets too which I can also demonstrate simply by changing the pieces.
By the way, I've seen a sex museum in the red light district of Amsterdam near the main station. Dan, if you come to have Turkish food with belly dancing in Freiburg, we may as well saunter on up to Amsterdam and have a look at the sex museum, uh, I mean the concertgebouw!
David

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