Klarinet Archive - Posting 000093.txt from 2006/12

From: Laurence Beckhardt <lbeckhardt@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] OK. I give up
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:06:12 -0500

You should have thrown in the peanuts.

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

> Laurence, your small talk is so small that it no
> longer exists.
> And your writing is now so empty and vacuous, that
> it isn't even
> worth reading, much less commenting on.
>
> Dan Leeson
> DNLeeson@-----.net
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laurence Beckhardt
> [mailto:lbeckhardt@-----.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 1:50 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] OK. I give up
>
>
> 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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