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Author: bcelestial2274
Date: 2004-08-05 14:17
I play a Selmer Series 9. I work with someone who plays a Buffet R-13. I am having problems relating to this person. How should I treat them as a normal person, when she is obviously very strange?
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2004-08-05 14:30
Switch to Yamaha. Better yet, switch to bassoon, where everybody is abnormal.
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Author: Ralph G
Date: 2004-08-05 14:52
Is she obviously very strange because she plays Buffet?
--Ralph (an obviously very strange Buffet player)
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2004-08-05 15:08
One should NEVER judge a person by his/her clarinet brand! Instead, look at the ligature.....is this a Rovner person? A Vandoren Optimum individual? Or (gasp!) a Francois Louie dude/dudette? The ligature will give you all the deep insight you need into the character of the player..............
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Author: William
Date: 2004-08-05 15:16
Perhaps you should consicer switching to a Buffet R13 as well. Then, at the very least, you could both share the same tuning problems.
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Author: Brenda
Date: 2004-08-05 15:44
Sounds like our office. Pretty typical with any group of work-mates! Decide that you're going to go more than half-way, but keep the communication open at all times. Go out of your way to give sincere compliments, give her preference in minor matters, overlook small things that admitedly ruffle your feathers, and TALK when serious disagreements haven't worked themselves out. Choose the proper time and place, always consider her dignity, admit when you've been wrong, ask for her suggestions to solve the problem. Give her all the right signals that you want to work WITH her to solve the problem but not that she's the whole problem. You might need to make some adjustments yourself for the sake of good music-making.
Most of the time this smooths things over to ease a long-term working relationship.
Talking about clarinets, I was playing together with my student and realized that the low Bb on her Bundy was painfully sharp. I'll have to check the tone hole to see if it's stuffed with fuzz or something. But what a terrible sound when played together! So yeah, these things can be pretty irritating especially when we think we're right and the other clarinet is off. (A tuner helps, but what do you do when the instrument can't adjust any more?) We have these situations in our Clarinet Choir, but we have to accommodate the individual clarinets without causing serious breaches in our professional relationships.
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Author: BobD
Date: 2004-08-05 15:55
See if you can find two other 9s....or is it 3 sixes!
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Author: ron b
Date: 2004-08-05 16:03
"Celestial" -
Pull yourself together and you may find, rather than a "them", your co-worker is a real live Individual.
- r![[cool]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/cool.gif) n b -
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Author: GBK
Date: 2004-08-05 16:14
The Selmer 9 is a big bore. The Buffet R-13 is a small bore.
It often applies to the players as well....GBK
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2004-08-05 16:52
Ken Shaw wrote:
> Switch to Yamaha. Better yet, switch to bassoon, where
> everybody is abnormal.
Or, as my math-major son might say - "better to be abnormal than having to be re-normalized ..."
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Author: bcelestial2274
Date: 2004-08-05 17:13
She plays on a BG Revelation. She thinks the Vandoren Optimum is too bright for her taste.
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