Klarinet Archive - Posting 000145.txt from 2008/07

From: David <brahms23@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Conn-Selmer Relocates
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:19:18 -0400

Craftspersonship? C'mon. Don't you think we are taking this politically correct thing a bit too far?

I don't want to offend anyone any more than the next guy.... but using "craftspersonship" is just getting silly.

--- On Wed, 7/30/08, Kevin Fay <kevin.fay.home@-----.net> wrote:

> From: Kevin Fay <kevin.fay.home@-----.net>
> Subject: RE: [kl] Conn-Selmer Relocates
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 9:05 PM
> Chane Smith posted:
>
> <<<You know what they say about American horns:
> "They've rarely been played,
> and only dropped once!" Or, is that a saying for
> something else?>>>
>
> You mean actual horns, like the Conn 8D, or the Holton
> Farkas or
> Merker-Matic? Or the Bach trumpets that are pretty much
> standard issue in
> most major orchestras world-wide?
>
> Few artist-quality clarinets are made in the U.S., true -
> but it's likely an
> historical anomaly that most have been centered in France
> and Germany.
> Certainly fine instruments are made in Japan (Yamaha) Italy
> (Patricola and
> Orsi-Wier ) and Canada (Backun's Leblancs, Steve Fox
> and the other half of
> Orsi-Wier).
>
> Guy Chadash is making horns in New York, which almost
> qualifies as the
> United States, no?
>
> Perhaps I am missing something. IMHO, it's not the
> nationality of the
> craftsperson that counts as much as the craftspersonship.
>
> . . . relativisitically yours,
>
> kjf
>
>
>
>
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