Klarinet Archive - Posting 000223.txt from 1993/11

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.EDU>
Subj: Tom Ascher's mouthpiece/clarinet combinations
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1993 14:07:28 -0500

That's it!!! I have now gone over the edge. I was moderately
confused before but now I am so at sea trying to understand what
Tom said, that I am prepared to give up.

I also add to Tom, that without some more precise measurement than
how you feel about a mouthpiece/clarinet combination (with those
feelings often being as subjective as things can get and still be
of this earth), it is insufficient for you to say this combination
played better, or that combination played harder. How much better?
How much harder? Did those things really happen or ddi you think
that they happened?

For me the world is quite different. I take a mouthpiece and a reed
and I put that combination on my clarinet until I am happy. Then
that same mouthpiece and same reed will make me happy on almost
any clarinet in terms of character of sound. Am I as unclear about
what happens to me as I switch clarinets as I think you may be when
you switch clarinets?

How can we have played these instruments (in my case) my whole
childhood and adult life and not know anything definitive about
this entire subject?

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