Klarinet Archive - Posting 000010.txt from 1969/12

From: kurtheisig@-----.net
Subj: RE: [kl] Hearing is believing, or is it?
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500

Sorry Dan---you loose on this one!!

We've been doing this for 50 years!!

In my studio I play a CD and the student, or customer gets to identify the player.

My students bring in recordings and test me all of the time.

When training studio musicians this kind of skill is particularly important. A studio musician may have to play many different styles and sounds. Often such a player will have to change several times a night, even within one tune. That skill may have to be demonstrated on 8-10 instruments in an evening. (Listen to recordings of Mauro Di Gioia or hear him live in Reno, for an excellent example of this.)

So the ability to recognize different sounds is a standard musical skill. It isn't restricted to just studio musicians. I know many dozens of jazz musicians that can identify most of the jazz musicians I listed. Many a college class teaches this, but I think most jazz afficiandos posses a fair degree of this skill.

Kurt

-----Original Message-----
>From: dnleeson <dnleeson@-----.net>
>Sent: Mar 4, 2007 7:40 AM
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: RE: [kl] Hearing is believing, or is it?
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>So you say. But how would you do in a blind test? What is talking in this note is ego, not proof.
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>Dan Leeson
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: kurtheisig@-----.net]
>Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 10:32 PM
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: RE: [kl] Hearing is believing, or is it?
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>Gee---Plas, Lennie, Grover, Stitt (on alto), Phil Woods, Desmond, Marshall Royal, Johnny Hodges, Bud Shank, Mike White!, Wes Montgomery, Johnny Smith, Louis, Maynard, Claude Gordon, Hugh Masakela, Harry James, Benny Goodman, Pete Fountain, Woody Herman, Artie Shaw, Gerry Mulligan, Art Carney, Mark Levine, Charlie Byrd, Charlie Parker, Coltrane, Bechet, George Shearing, Les McCann, Ramsey Lewis, Vince Guaraldi, JAY MCSHANN, Cal Tjader, Lionel Hampton, Charlie Ventura, Coleman Hawkins, Pete Christlieb, Don Menza, Ray Pizzi, Al Anthony, Ray Anthony, Al Hirt, Getz, Charlie Shavers, Raul De Souza, George Roberts, and a hundred more...
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>Classically---James Galway, Rampal, Maurice Andre, Ghitalla, Sabina Meyer, Harvey Pittel, Sigurd Rascher, Marcel Mule, Pekka Savijoki, Daniel Deffayet.
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>Maybe that is harder, but certainly there are DOZENS of easily recognizable players out there.
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>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Karl Krelove <karlkrelove@-----.net>
>>Sent: Mar 3, 2007 4:30 PM
>>To: klarinet@-----.org
>>Subject: RE: [kl] Hearing is believing, or is it?
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>>OK, I'll bite - how did you verify whether you were right or not? :-)
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>>Karl
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Kevin Fay [mailto:kevin.fay.home@-----.net]
>>> ...I was pretty good with alto players,
>>> less so with tenors - but could tell if they were using
>>> an Otto Link or not with about 80% accuracy.
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