[TPIN] "True Bach/Primative??

[RRW1951 at aol.com]

Good afternoon, Fellow Trumpeters,

Here I'd like to interject a couple of my own observations
about this discussion:

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        Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 01:01:56 -0500
        From: "Allegro69" <allegro69 at comcast.net>
        Subject: Re: [TPIN] "True Bach/Primative??
        To: <tpin at tpin.okcu.edu>, "Glenn Bengry" <soundpretty at hotmail.com>
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        Evolution hasn't changed the human species in the time span of 
        50 or 60 years.   The only difference is the tools and technology 
        they had then as opposed to what's available today.>>

        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~SNIP~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

We may see that lots of the fundamnetal aspects of marketing -- from
explaining to the buyers the special properties of the ingredients in
the product and the manufacturing processes that are unique to
a specific company, to the benefits in using that product and endorsemnts
from those who do (or who claim to) -- have not changed, but have gotten more
detailed, more refined, more "slick". 

What HAS apparently changed is the basic attitudes toward so many 
things, where "time is of the essence", and even the most mundane
activities fall under this point of view.  I am talking about so much that 
goes
on in and out of business, in public and in private lives.  

When a manufuacturer perhaps can not survive while making the best 
product possible, because to do so takes too much time and makes that 
product cost too much, then making them more cheaply becomes the ultimate.

Probably when Vincent Bach and Eldon Benge were working, they were
more often returning to the idea of "How good CAN it be?", even when
trying to make money at the same time.  If they had to work at a slower
pace because the technology they had could not permit them to go
any faster, then it may be that the speed of manufacture they were
held to actually was as important to the quality of what they made
as was the alloys and the tools they used.



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        While I greatly appreciate the modern marvels today where I benefit 
        from computers, CD players and the like, I also greatly appreciate 
the 
        'earlier methods' when craftspersons didn't have computers to aid in 
        their work and had to rely more on what nature provided. >>

        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~SNIP~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Agreed.  

Richard Waddell