Klarinet Archive - Posting 000163.txt from 2004/07

From: <tony-w@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Content in klarinet
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 12:50:10 -0400

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Content in klarinet

> On 3 Jul, <tony-w@-----.uk> wrote:
>
> > Tony Pay suggested recently that subscribers who ask questions about
reed strengths and mouthpiece comparisons were less interesting than our
more specific and detailed contributions containing real information.

> Well, I didn't say that. What I said was,

> > Various people here think that they are making a contribution by saying,
I like Vandoren strength 4 with a 5RV lyre mouthpiece, what do others
think?

This, what others 'think' about their contributions, is quite possible.

> > I personally don't see that sort of post as a contribution.

I do - in its own way, I do see it to be a contribution; a question, a
search if you like, no matter how obscure it may seem to be initially. It
may not be quite exactly a direct question asking about other clarinettists`
set up, but it`s still searching - in an indirect way, to discover what and
if
others maybe using the same or a similar set up to themselves, to enable
them to connect with maybe adapting their own set up for the better in
any way that`s possible. To me, Tony gave a fairly strong impression that
he himself was becoming a little bored with with this kind of post. If I`m
wrong with Tony`s original, then I should perhaps have read it another
way, and twice maybe. It`s all to do with misinterpretation, so tricky in
short snatches of 'chat'. But I do believe it was a little unnecessary to
say it this way in the first place. Klarinet needs 'clarinet', however basic
it has to be, and recently I have noticed that not a lot of youngsters,
or even adult beginners are contributing too much at present.

> You notice that what I call 'that sort of post' is distinct from a post
that asks for help with a problem, to which sort of post (including ones
aboutreeds and mouthpieces) I think I can say I respond as considerately
as most people here.

Yes you do. Quite admirably.

Best,
Tony W.

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