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Re: New Model Insanity

Author: Fuzzy
Date: 2017-07-12 06:35

Robert - once again your question(s) refer more to markets and marketing than they do music (which is fine...I'm just not sure you'll get the definitive answer you're looking for in this particular forum).

I doubt there are very many successful manufacturers that believe their product is "perfect", or well-suited to their entire scope of customers. So, they research, test, try to improve, try to gauge changes in the market, define niches, and sell - evaluate the results and repeat.

Have a look on this forum for discussions about ligatures if you want a better example of this. Look at the number of different ligatures folks feel "are the best" - it varies far and wide. That, in a nutshell, is "what's going on." People like choices, and companies like to try to figure out how to provide those choices at a large enough profit to make their risk worth it...usually by offering the best product they can (unless they lose their way and just start trying to live on a name...Kodak, Sears, Buffet?, Blockbuster, etc. - note that two of these four simply stuck with the product they had, and didn't innovate or try new things early enough - and now they are virtually gone because the market passed them by.)

On the other hand, if you're happy with your original iPad/iPhone/Droid/Windows Mobile - which incidentally beat the others to market - good on ya. I saw a guy walking down the street last week with a 1980s "Boom Box" on his shoulder. He was having a blast. Good for him!

I think the answer as it pertains to clarinet is: find what works for you, personally, and be happy!