Klarinet Archive - Posting 000071.txt from 2005/03

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Germansound Boehmclarinets
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 12:35:58 -0500

Noel's comments are worthy of examination. The brand name cannot
(or should not) contain reference to something that cannot be
achieved precisely because there is no definition for it. For
example, a "Buffet dark sound" or a "Nuclear powered Selmer."
Advertising terms developed to imply a character that you the
player would like to achieve (which the instrument may or may not
be able to do) are not inappropriate; i.e., "Buffet Presitge,"
"LeBlanc Royalty," "Yamaha Impeccability." Besides, no one
believes that these descriptions are meaningful or true, like the
"Cadillac Tiger." It's advertising nonsense.

Not so for the questionable practice of assuming national
characteristics to a clarinet sound; i.e., the German sound, the
French sound, the American sound. Some people believe this myth
to be true and thus, advertising an instrument that will achieve
it is unwise precisely because this thing that they are promising
is undefined. Maybe it should be, but it isn't. It's some
ephemeral, unclear, blather that many clarinet players assume to
be gospel.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Noel Taylor [mailto:r.n.taylor@-----.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 9:20 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] Germansound Boehmclarinets

Well - at least let's agree that as a brand name it's got quite a
few people
talking about it. I don't suppose anyone's going to say to
themselves that
they wouldn't even try a clarinet with a brand name that
suggested qualities
that weren't based on evidence. Hey - that's a Buffet Prestige, I
won't
touch it - prestige is earned not bought, etc.

Noel

-----Original Message-----
From: Georg K ü hner [mailto:520045578938-0001@-----.de]
Sent: 02 March 2005 17:08
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Germansound Boehmclarinets

Hello Dan,

I think I can not reach the high quality language that You use
because I'm
not from an English speaking country.

I agree with You in many things but ...

Regards Georg

Am 02.03.2005 17:36 Uhr schrieb "dnleeson" unter
<dnleeson@-----.net>:

> The problem I have here is that the term "certain kind of
sound"
> can mean many things. However, I do not believe that it can
ever mean
> "German," and this is because there is not a penny's worth of
evidence
> that establishes a relationship between nationality and
instrumental
> sound.
>
> It is even a worse description than "dark" or "bright."
>
> Dan Leeson
> DNLeeson@-----.net
>
>
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