Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2017-08-04 19:52
"I just can't see a problem with the vast selection of products we have today."
There's utterly none--in fact choice is a good thing. (You'd probably expect to hear the opposite from my previous "seller hating" diatribes.)
Where focus though I believe needs to lie is in educating the consumer on why sellers do the things they do (which as a whole is centered more on profit than user need, IMHO, in the clarinet gear market), what their products--beyond marketing hype--truly deliver, and preventing the artist endorsement factor (e.g. the false hope of "I'll be more/just like superstar player X if I play the Y piece of gear he/she is playing.")
Still more, measured and thoughtful gear enhancements can improve play.
You see, in such a idealistic world of extreme consumer knowledge, the market learns to not produce junk simply because it doesn't sell.
Reading between the lines on Tom's post, I don't see him anti-gear per se either. Rather, I see him asking, in so many words, "what are you seeing in a expensive ligature that a superior player like Drucker didn't? And willing to accept a decent answer, if it exists, beyond that he/me/anyone already knows.
Anti technological advancement? No way. Kudos to Legere, skepticism to cryogenically made ligatures.
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