Klarinet Archive - Posting 000385.txt from 1996/10

From: Jim Harper <jharper@-----.EDU>
Subj: dark, darker, darkest
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 10:19:06 -0400

I've read with half hearted interest many posts on
this list concerning descriptions of tone, I
certainly never felt I had anything much to add
to the discussion.

Until now.

Last night I was trying out different mouthpieces and
asked my girlfriend (a non-musician stock broker who
has never in her sweet life been exposed to any discussion
or diatribes on tonal qualities) if she could hear
any difference between two mouthpieces. She listened
carefully as I went back and forth between a couple of
of mouthpieces, "a" and "b". Her response?

"I liked mouthpiece "a" better.
"Yeah? Why, what was different?
"I don't know how to put it. It sounds darker, mellower,
smoother."

Hmm, I of course couldn't really tell due to bone
conduction and the superior knowledge gained from
reading Leason's posts that anyone hearing a dark
tone is hopelessly naive.

--
Jim Harper
Little Rock, AR
jharper@-----.edu

   
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