Klarinet Archive - Posting 000238.txt from 2005/10

From: "danyel" <rab@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] Paradise lost (was: clarinet afterllfe)
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 20:28:25 -0400

Yeah, I totally agree. A very apt analysis. It applies to all aspects of
human life. It's the end of culture. It's like these abominable "early"
musicians who play nylon strings because they can't stand the tuning. They
sacrifice art to their comfortable life style which in fact turns out
anything but comfortable because they use the time saved chasing to the
airport for the next gig. They can't play the music properly but they make
the gig.
Fortunately there are quite a few instruments from the old days still
around. I wished that was true for the players as well!

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From: "Ormondtoby Montoya" <or3mondtoby@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 1:45 AM
Subject: RE: [kl] Paradise lost (was: clarinet afterllfe)

> It's easy to believe that earlier generations took their secrets with
> them to the grave, and I suppose this was true in a few cases. Ditto
> for composers and authors and glassmakers and....
>
> However, my feeling is a bit different. Probably every statement has
> an exception, but I believe that for the most part, modern human beings
> don't want to invest the unimaginable (by modern standards) amount of
> effort into their trade (be it art or carpentry or whatever else) as the
> finest practitioners of old did.
>
> Thus, it isn't that secrets have been lost.
>
> It's that (for the most part) there are more facets of 'life' that
> demand/attract attention nowadays, and therefore it's less common to
> find a skilled trades person --- artist, mechanic, carpenter, or
> whatever --- who is as intensely focused and as uncaring about the other
> aspects of life and as accepting of deprivation as was the case
> centuries ago.
>
> The best artists & tradespeople work hard, no question about that. But
> 'harder than hard'? Most of us want to watch the six o'clock news at
> the end of the day, and to be paid a million dollars and then have time
> to spend it, and therefore we put our tools/pen/whatever down when
> dinner is ready --- so to speak.
>
>
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