Klarinet Archive - Posting 001437.txt from 1997/10

From: "R Tennenbaum" <rtenn@-----.com>
Subj: Re: klarinet-digest V1 #376
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 20:44:30 -0500

Karl Krelove:

>I'd be willing to bet a great deal that none of the players you have in
>mind would admit to a "brilliant" sound unless "dark" and "brilliant"
>could somehow be twisted into becoming synonymous.

You're right, the word brilliant is meaningless. I was just simply
sort of trying to account for a phenomenon, a rather narrow one in
the scheme of things.

The judgement, however hazy or ill-articulated, is qualitative, but
goes beyond like or dislike, for me, anyway. But most every player
has heard a clarinet sound he or she didn't like, even from a great
clarinetist, and I think it's fair to say most good instrumentalists
like to sound one particular way and not another.

-Rafe T.