Klarinet Archive - Posting 000655.txt from 2004/11

From: Tom Wood <n4cid1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] HOW TO handle new REEDS?
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:29:36 -0500

There is no hope for you Lelia! : )

Tom W

>The main disadvantage I see with endorsements from legendary US
>clarinettists is: They're dead. The only way to ask Harold Wright what he
>really meant is by seance. I personally don't get satisfactory results
>from interrogating the deceased (unless I use a Ouija board or tarot cards,
>because I'm pretty good at cheating with those).
>
>
>
>>The most important part of 'what works' for us is
>>that our judgement of that workability depends on
>>our view of the musical context, not on some
>>here-today, gone-tomorrow authority.
>>
>>
>
>Yes, and for those of us who wish to cite the best, the most accurate, the
>most unassailable authority, there's an even more serious disadvantage in
>citing any here-today authority, such as yourself: If we do quote you as
>saying, for example, that Harold Wright was an arrogant asshole, or that
>the only correct way to trim a reed is with the fingernail from the
>smallest hind claw of a Romanian Ridgeback dragon, shed naturally (not
>pulled!) and then sharpened with three and only three strops on an Arkansas
>oilstone before each use, then there's a fairly high risk that you'll see
>the message and write back and correct us. How embarrassing! The textbook
>is safer, and the Ouija board moreso.
>;-)
>
>
>

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