Klarinet Archive - Posting 000324.txt from 2004/10

From: GrabnerWG@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Selmer St. Louis
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 16:39:25 -0400

In a message dated 10/10/2004 10:23:53 AM Central Daylight Time,
Elgenubi@-----.com writes:

<<You've got me thinking. Have vendors or researchers or any of us ever
initiated discussions of clarinet sound using the concepts of 'frequency
response' or 'bandwidth'? As in this fictitious advertising statement: "Our
new
Super Pizza Ligature is designed to emphasize frequencies from 10 to 12
thousand
Hertz, a frequency range shown to be important in projecting your clarinet
sound in small dull halls."
I know this would be rotten marketing, but would it be useful on some
level?>>

Wayne, since there are no "scientific" measurements or standards that are
universally agreed to be "correct" or "in-correct", this kind of marketing would
not be effective for the vendors. They would spend more time defending their
measurements than they would selling horns.

Until these kind of measurements appear and are generally agreed to - which
I don't expect to happen in my lifetime - we'll continue to get the same sort
of advertising "mush" that we have had to date.

Walter Grabner
www.clarinetXpress.com
World-class clarinet mouthpieces

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