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Re: airy notes

Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2010-07-07 13:49

Iceland clarinet wrote:

> I mean I think it's very sad to hear stories about
> professionals who go through a box of reeds and if it doesn't
> play out of the box they toss it when very often it's just a
> matter of balancing one side and it will play beautifully or at
> least be useful for practicing.

We've been through this before. Return on investment. Some people don't want to be bothered with fiddling with reeds since they're cheap - they'd rather play. If they're truly professional then they know how to balance a reed - probably better than you can. They just can't be bothered - it's faster to find one that just plays out of the box.

I don't try and save hard disks by running low-level formats, etc - I chuck 'em out at the first sign of any problem. Some people might be "sad" because some of those disks are probably just fine after a re-format - but I can't be bothered with them. My livelihood depends on the data, and I make more money by working than I would save by fiddling around with the things.

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