Klarinet Archive - Posting 000102.txt from 2005/03

From: <tony-w@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] At Tony's request
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:15:10 -0500

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From: Vann Joe Turner <medpen@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 9:22 PM
Subject: [kl] At Tony's request

> Tony (Pay) has asked me both on this list and via private email to explain
what I find deficient in his chapter in *The Cambridge Companion to the
Clarinet*. This stems from my having labeled it gobbledegoop . . . . . . .

Compilation books, books which have one editor yet several contributor
writers are never really very successful as 'how to' manuals. They are
probably intended to be more of an overall view of what several
distingushed players see as only a small part of a much greater product
which they maybe will never see. None of them get a preview of what other
writers contribute, so each of them is more or less working in the dark.
Some say this is a 'cheap' way for an editor to 'write' a book - a con,
certainly if the editor then uses his own name. They do have some worth
however. But there really is only one way to learn to play an instrument
properly, and that is properly - with a good teacher. Books are no good -
not really. This is not to say that TP`s contribution is worthless, there is
indeed room for this kind of material, but at the same time 'gobbledegook is
a comletely wrong turn of phrase. In this instance, TP`s, and all other
contributors` kind of advice reads more like a general resume from which a
reader may come to honestly appraise or question what they see, and then to
take this further and ask their teacher`s advice.

These books cannot teach, they can only offer information from which the
reader then goes elsewhere to delve deeper.

May I say that Gobbledegook is at present in here, yes, but not in the
*Cambridge Companion*. The very term 'companion' means quite literary to
have something else (something familiar) running along side. Like a teacher.

Tony W

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