Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2017-08-02 21:21
Mr. Blumberg:
You are an excellent musician, better on your so-so days than I'll likely ever be. The video was great, but certainly not needed (although of course welcome) to substantiate that fact.
Still more, you've probably forgotten more about clarinet than I know.
But that said, there are few clarinetists, I think, who are likely to glean play advantages from Silverstein, although you *might* be one, despite Silverstein's marketing of most of its ligs to the masses; which is their right, and why I preach caveat emptor (buyer beware.)
It is those masses I address, not that I feel in anyway a need for defensive posture based on your thoughts.
I'll concur that [your] mouth to bell equipment choices in their entirety make quality play easier, postulating that the Silverstein lig that forms part of it, which I am going to guess you acquired at a price cheaper than quoted (maybe I'm wrong) because of your artistic affiliation with the company, serves, far and away, the least in that "easier to play" equation. I also commend you on full disclosure of that relationship with Silverstein if not also bring attention to the bias it can bring, and the postscript note that behind it all, first in foremost, lies the player.
"Buffet has their top of the line and it costs not a penny more."
a penny more than...its quality? (I think that's what you meant.)
If that's your sentiment (I'm not certain), then I chose to believe that it's priced not a penny more than its "perceived" quality, or more aptly stated, not a penny more than some (rest assured Buffet has done the math on how many) are willing/able to pay.
Without question, less dud clarinets exist, say, within the Tosca line than the R13 line (the lowest of the Professional end instruments) with almost as much certainty that Tosca duds do exist.
Again, I really do feel that vendors want to sell value added products, but not nearly as much as they desire profit (an executive's obligation to a firm's stakeholders, not a "pact with the devil.")
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