Klarinet Archive - Posting 000304.txt from 1997/01

From: Roger Shilcock
Subj: Tone quality and tone character (fwd)
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 10:47:27 -0500

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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 04:26:10 EST
From: Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.UK>
Subject: Tone quality and tone character

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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I take it you understand "quality" to be always an evaluative term. I
don't. so
probably your "character" would include (subsume?) my "quality".
In any case, I did say that the differences in players' characteristics
might well be more important - this depends on what players are under
discussion, though.
Yours,
Roger