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Author: NOLA Ken
Date: 2026-08-06 21:15
I just learned to my dismay that the ClarinetPerfection.com web site and its hosting site The Woodwind Forum are gone. A terrible loss. When I was unable to access the site I went searching for information on it and came across this YouTube explaining the shutdown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZE9qBL4oc4
When I returned to playing clarinet ten years ago after a 40-year hiatus, ClarinetPerfection.com, the Clarinet Pages and similar sites bootstrapped my return and provided me more knowledge of the clarinet and the clarinet community than I had learned in my entire nine school years playing in the 60s and 70s. The Clarinet Perfection web site literally gave me the information to understand why I had found playing so discouraging back then (and why my college instructor dissed my instrument so badly). That knowledge re-entergized and reformed my approach to the clarinet and has informed every step in my exploration of all things clarinet since returning to playing.
I will sorely miss Clarinet Perfection. In the Youtube there is mention that some of the web pages may be added to the Internet Archive. As of today they are not there yet. Lets hope they get there. YouTube videos and Facebook pages are just not very accessible venues for the type of information that was on Clarinet Perfection.
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Author: paulyb
Date: 2026-08-07 01:35
I can see at least some of the content in the Internet Archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250621224754/https://www.woodwindforum.com/clarinetperfection/
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Author: Fuzzy
Date: 2026-08-07 02:52
It is a real danger. This bboard is not immune as Mark has mentioned here before.
If I were to list the top two repositories of musical information / iterations...I'd list this bboard's early years right up there at the top - along with an old mailing list...The Dixieland Jazz Mailing List.
Both of these had pointed debate, clear views, contradictory views, professionals, and novices.
Watching Ken Shaw and Tony Pay go at it was priceless. Plus the others giants who frequented the mailing list and early bboard.
Getting to interact with Jazz legends on the Dixieland Jazz Mailing List was amazing. Molly Ringwald's dad, Bob, was an early jazz performer and managed the mailing list. Probably the most informed group I ever had the privilege of observing...even venturing to ask a question now or then. Bob was served well by the mailing list, but (due to being blind) said that Facebook and such were all but unusable for him. One member decided to start a Facebook page with the same name, and that was the end of it the mailing list. Bob passed away, shortly thereafter. You can still find remnants of the old mailing list (archived), but I see the archives are now disappearing - and with it, all the priceless writings from truly brilliant, noteworthy individuals.
The Internet "is forever" only in the context that pieces of any one thing will most likely survive...like paper tore to pieces and thrown into the wind...or a coin dropped from a pocket while crossing a fence. However, finding any semblance of the whole is much more difficult.
Like a tree or plant, as long as it is nurtured it will sustain, but neglected, it will die.
Fuzzy
;^)>>>
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