Klarinet Archive - Posting 000090.txt from 2006/12

From: Laurence Beckhardt <lbeckhardt@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] OK. I give up
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:50:08 -0500

If it's really about the appreciation, as opposed to
the money, why don't you give the basset horn to
Benjamin? Sounds like he would really cherish it and
then pass it lovingly along to the next generation.
Carve your name in it.

--- dnleeson <dnleeson@-----.net> wrote:

> It is interesting that Benjamin speaks about the
> aesthetics of
> instruments. There is a great deal to one's playing
> that derives
> from aesthetics. While I have no proof, I think I
> play better
> when the thing on which I am playing is physically
> beautiful. I
> was even going to have diamonds set in the bell of
> my basset
> horn, only for the aesthetic value, but then I
> realized that no
> one would able to afford it.
>
> And I remember when Benjamin came to Las Vegas and
> played on my
> instrument. I always enjoyed looking at the face of
> someone when
> the first played the instrument. It was as if they
> were having
> an epiphany.
>
> Dan Leeson
> DNLeeson@-----.net
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benjamin Maas [mailto:benmaas@-----.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 12:56 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] OK. I give up
>
>
> I find all these comments by folks that have never
> laid eyes on
> this
> instrument rather interesting (er... Amusing?). A
> couple years
> back when
> Dan, Keith and Forest went to Las Vegas to play some
> Mozart, they
> gave a
> master class. At the conclusion of the class, they
> offered their
> instruments for us to play.
>
> I have to say that the instruments that Dan and
> Keith owned were
> amongst the
> best instruments of any sort that I have ever
> played. The
> aesthetics of the
> instruments were unbelievable (the pictures do not
> do them
> justice) and they
> were very even and great sounding... As for the
> aesthetics, I
> generally
> don't like anything other than the "traditional"
> blackwood/silver
> look, but
> these were a thing of beauty.
>
> I have seen the ebay auctions only wishing that I
> could somehow
> justify the
> expense to own what is not just a great instrument
> by a work of
> art. I can
> only hope that Dan can find somebody deserving that
> would
> appreciate such an
> instrument.
>
> --Ben
>
> Benjamin Maas
> Fifth Circle Audio
> Los Angeles, CA
> http://www.fifthcircle.com
>
>
>
>
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