Klarinet Archive - Posting 000299.txt from 1997/01

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.EDU>
Subj: Tone quality and tone character
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 07:11:27 -0500

Roger suggests that the various parameters between a German system
clarinet and a French system clarinet account for differences in
tone quality. Roger, don't you mean tone character? Tone quality
is determined by a variety of factors most of which are external
to the clarinet itself. But the character of the tone, the nature
of what makes a clarinet sound like a clarinet, whether it be
French or German system, is determined by the physics of the
instrument.

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