Klarinet Archive - Posting 000212.txt from 1993/11

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Tom Ascher's comments on sound
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1993 00:29:02 -0500

Tom, your comments were, as usual, very helpful in trying to
understand a thing as difficult as sound. But I think that
things are starting to get out of focus. On one hand the
place where the sound is produced is not necessarily where it
gets that thing that we call "character of sound."

I have given some suggestions that the character is due, to
a large extent, to certain physical aspects of the body. I do
not dispute what you say, but want to refocus the discussions to
somehow better understand what elements (and Cary has mentioned
many) influence the subjective elements of sound character. We
had another interesting post suggesting that it all (or most, at
least) lay in the infinite variety of movements of the lips,
tongue, palate, etc.

I don't know what it true and I'm getting more confused by the
minute. The bottom line is that I am not sure that there is
anyone in the world who can speak definitively on which elements
a clarinet player can manage and which elements s/he cannot
(such as body cavities) constitute the major factors in
establishing a sound character.

I'm discouraged (but I'm learning every minute so, on the other
hand, I'm encouraged). But I still have 8 more Nutcrackers to
go so I am discouraged again. But I don't have to transpose
the A bass clarinet stuff any longer so I'm encouraged. But I
have to play Mahler 5 in February so I am very discouraged.

I need a psychiatrist.

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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
(leeson@-----.edu)
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