Klarinet Archive - Posting 000581.txt from 1996/09

From: Ian M Dilley <imd@-----.UK>
Subj: Re: Klezmer
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 07:04:40 -0400

I bought the same CD a couple of weeks ago. I'd never heard any Klezmer
before but I had to buy it after what Fred Jacobowitz said about him. He's
right, this guy really is amazing. I have been wanting to ask how the
"nyuck-nyuck" sound was done but couldn't find a way to describe it. Well
done Mark!

Last night my house was broken into and they took ALL my CDs (about 400)
:-( So now I'm going to have to buy another copy.

Ian

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From: Mark Charette
Sent: 25 September 1996 13:16
To: Multiple recipients of list KLARINET
Subject: Klezmer

Having just bought my first klezmer CD (Giora Feidman, The Magic of the
Klezmer,
Delos 4005), I have a couple of questions:

1) How does he make a clarinet growl so emphatically? I've never quite
heard
anything like that before.
2) Same question on the "nyuck-nyuck-nyuck" lines (alright, so I'm
imagining
Larry, Curly, and Moe giving each other noogies).
3) His scale seems pretty "western" (well-tempered). However, in Detroit,
we have an Arab TV station which plays a lot of music videos from the
Near
East. The clarinet sections in the bands (always seems to be lots of
clarinets in the bands) do not seem to follow a well-tempered scale.
Since
many of the klezmer tunes on the CD are of Israeli composition, I
expected
less tempering than Giora puts in. Is Isreali & Yiddish music more
tempered
(as a rule) than Arab? Also, how does an Arab band play so well
"out-of-tune"
on a western instrument (I know, it's only out of tune to my western
ears;
after a short time of listening it's just as in tune as anything else).

Mark Charette
charette@-----.com

   
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