Klarinet Archive - Posting 000185.txt from 1997/08

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: mouthpiece and reed freaks
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 13:27:43 -0400

On Wed, 6 Aug 1997 GTGallant@-----.com wrote:

> Sound production has a binary answer - Either it sounds good or
> sounds bad.

In my opinion, this is not true. You could have 10 mouthpieces, and some
could and would sound better than others. You could never arrange them in
such a way that those on one side of an arbitrary division could be said
to be "good" with all those on the other side being "bad." Rather, there
would be a spectrum. Some would be acceptable, some would have flaws
which would be apparent only to the player but not to listeners, etc.

Ed Lacy
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