Klarinet Archive - Posting 000005.txt from 2008/06

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Rant du jour
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:13:44 -0400

At 05:34 PM 6/1/2008, Karl Krelove wrote:
>...By the way, set aside the situation in which teachers make
>"practice copies"
>for students to use so they don't destroy the original parts. That's one
>that *is* occasionally prosecuted with results that can be disastrous to the
>teacher who gets nailed, even though a gazillion teachers do the same thing
>every day.

The problem here is that the publisher and the user see the parts in
different ways. The publisher views the parts as consumables, to be
used and tossed away when no longer needed. The teacher, on a
limited budget and with full knowledge of the destructive and/or
careless tendencies of his/her charges, considers them durable goods
that should be reusable many times over if they would only survive
that long, or at least stay in print long enough to get replacement
parts. The publisher is HIGHLY unlikely to sell more than one copy
to a given school or community band, with or without copying, and
they know it. The only advantage they get in having the old
arrangement die is that they are then more likely to sell you an
entirely NEW piece at a higher price, since the old one is no longer
playable. That is good for composers and arrangers of new music, but
hell on us frugal types who like the old music better. Of course,
making copies of an entire arrangement and giving/selling them to
another group is a whole different kettle of fish. Still, copying
OUT-OF-PRINT music just does not set off my "ethical detector" the
way the publishers would like.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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