Klarinet Archive - Posting 000417.txt from 2004/11

From: kimi <kimi_kimy@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinets - Identification markings etc.,
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 20:47:15 -0500


--- Ormondtoby Montoya <orm1ondtoby@-----.net> wrote:

> Many of us own more than one clarinet. I happen to
> own a Yamaha
> YCL-20, which I think is what your daughter plays,
> and a Howarth. The
> tenons and sockets on my two instruments don't fit
> each other. Thus I
> can't assemble a complete instrument from them, and
> I can't test the
> sound myself. I honestly don't know how bad the
> sound may if the two
> joints from two different instruments at least fit
> together.
>
> One reason why I mentioned this detail is the
> possibility that the same
> thing happened to the girl who took your daughter's
> clarinet.
>
> That is, perhaps the girl tried to put your
> daughter's joint on her
> clarinet; and only when it didn't fit, she decided
> to bring it back.
>
> This would be an example of the need to find out
> what really happened
> (as part of the education process). Are you
> dealing with a student who
> realized that she had done the wrong thing and was
> trying to undo her
> mistake? In which case, was her outward
> nonchalance really a matter of
> fear? Or are you dealing with a student who
> would've kept the joint if
> it had fitted?
>
I really don't know enough about the student other
than there has been comments about the girl having
been a problem in the past for one reason or another.
I will have to ask Kriston more about her tonight. I
have been at work all this time and just fixing to go
home now.

Thanks
Kathy

www.yahoo.com

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Klarinet is a service of Woodwind.Org, Inc. http://www.woodwind.org