Klarinet Archive - Posting 000114.txt from 2001/05

From: George Kidder <gkidder@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Cracking Clarinets
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 09:18:13 -0400

Roger doesn't add one further example from his own experience.

Having purchased a new Prestige and gone through all of the setup expenses, I
am sure he took care of it as well as he did the other instruments. Yet it
cracked while under this care, or so I was informed by a usually reliable
source. Am I misinformed, Roger?

Score: (for RG only) Care preserves - 2, It cracks anyway - 1.

At 07:19 PM 05/01/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>At 07:19 PM 05/01/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>>Also knowing the correct cause can help prevent unnecessary guilt
>>feelings. I.e. the person who "babies" their horn and takes all the
>>precautionary measures for all environmental element opens his/her case
>>and finds a crack. Right now this person is going to react "what did I do
>>wrong" and believe they overlooked something in their care routine. Now
>>they can review their care routine, find that they did everything right,
>>and be able to say that this particular horn was simply waiting to crack.
>
>My mother was a big believer in guilt. She could make a person feel guilty
>for walking through the door wrong.
>
>I have no problem with someone feeling guilty because they took care of
>their horn and it still cracked.
>
>This is what anti-depressants are for.
>
>Best wishes,
>Roger Garrett
>
>Roger Garrett
>Clarinet Professor
>Director, Symphonic Winds
>Illinois Wesleyan University
>School of Music
>Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
>Phone: (309) 556-3268
>Fax: (309) 556-3121
>
>"A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes
>another's."
> Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825)
>
>
>
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