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Re: A good laugh.....

Author: fskelley
Date: 2014-05-20 18:26

"Solid silver keys make a clarinet sound better", like most every nonsense belief- including at least a few held by each one of us, probably started honestly enough. That is, it was not anyone's intent to deliberately hoodwink others. ("Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.") We are all so easily suggestible, when we try to judge a difference between nearly equal things, we cannot avoid being influenced by suggestions or previous opinions. And once something gets started, it's nearly impossible to reverse or eliminate. Even if somebody goes to the trouble of a rigorous statistically based study (expensive and often difficult to design for true impartiality) and manages to "prove the negative", that is- solid silver keys do not cause a detectable improvement in clarinet sound- that's not going to undo an existing established prejudice. And heaven forbid that the actual tests come out very slightly (though statistically insignificantly) in favor of the silver keys... game over.

Mouthpieces, anyone? Reeds? Barrels? Ligatures? How about CLARINETS? Trouble is, you've got actual differences mixed in with the placebo effects. Neutrality is impossible.

Stan in Orlando

EWI 4000S with modifications

Post Edited (2014-05-20 18:28)

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