Klarinet Archive - Posting 000400.txt from 2009/02

From: X-BakerBotts-MailScanner-tom.henson@-----.com
Subj: RE: [kl] Clarinet Setup - Long
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:41:24 -0500

Yes, Forest, I see now how you interpreted this the way you did, so
hopefully this is clearer now because the way you interpreted is not
what I had intended. Thus my clarification.

So let me restate what I said earlier today and then ask you a question.

"Language is an imprecise form of communication. Written communication
such as e-mail is even more imprecise and this is really where things
get confused. Since I do not know you personally, I have no basis for
how to interpret what you are saying other than to try and filter it
through my own understanding. Since each person perceives things in a
unique way, this is where the impreciseness occurs. I must interpret
what you are saying based upon how I see it vs. how you see it."

I am hearing a bass clarinet sound in my head right now and I want to
describe to you what I am hearing.

So my question is this, what sound am I hearing? If I describe using
words that I understand, imprecise as they are, will you "hear" the same
thing.

Answer, no, because the way I see reediness or whatever, does not mean
you will hear or understand the description in the same way.

That is why trying to describe how something sounds, especially through
e-mail is so difficult and prone to a multitude of interpretations. Good
and bad.

Tom Henson

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