Klarinet Archive - Posting 000796.txt from 1996/08

From: njs5%cam.ac.uk@-----.COM
Subj: Re: Greg van Cott's questions about R13 shopping (fwd)
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 15:35:00 -0400

Forwarded message:
>
> Well, Dan is ready for another fight!
> Yes Dan. Give Stoltzman any clarinet you can find and 90% of the readers of
> this message will say "I recognized Stoltzman's tone at once". But I believe
> they'd be largely deceiving themselves by confusing style with tone. And the
> other side of it is that if we hand my clarinet and yours to a good player
> and ask her/him to play them, I'm sure that you and I will both be able to
> identify which is which.
> Now when you're comparing two R13's it is not so extreme and you'll have to
> be very careful to use the same mouthpiece, not to move the reed and so on
> to make a good comparison. The differences may be subtle. It may be that you
> reject one for poor tone because just one note has a worse tone. This could
> be for all sorts of reasons (not because it's made of papyrus or tofu, but
> just because there is a rough edge on one tonehole, for instance) but still
> it is the case that you are judging the tone.
> Of course Dan is right that you don't go and buy the tone, but it is stupid
> not to give yourself the best chance. Even if nobody but you hears the
> difference, you'll play better if you hear a better sound. Nick

   
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