Klarinet Archive - Posting 000244.txt from 1994/10

From: John Dohrmann <jdohrman@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: National schools of clarinet playing
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 1994 13:00:28 -0400

Maybe I'm confused but I interpreted Laura Bornhoeft's message as=20
applying to the different approaches to clarinet/mouthpiece/reed design=20
that was (as I recall from reading) fought out for some time. I thought=20
the"german" design also stuck with the reed-on-top approach longer. I=20
further recall that when the English instrument makers went with the=20
"French" design that was a signal that the French style was winning=20
overall. I consider the Yamaha clarinets to be of this "French" school=20
and thought the "German" school had essentially disappeared.

Laura, what did you mean?

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=FCJohn Dohrmann
Puget Sound Water Quality Authority
Olympia, Washington
jdohrman@-----.com

On Fri, 21 Oct 1994, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:

> Maybe it is my tin ear, but I could never detect anything French in
> Louis Cahuzac's playing, anything German in any German player's playing,
> or anything Italian in Gino Cioffi's playing.
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