Klarinet Archive - Posting 000605.txt from 1998/01

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.com>
Subj: Re: RE Vibrato
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 07:37:18 -0500

reedy wrote very recently:
>
> Several things occured to me about the use of vibrato.
>
> In the classical context vibrato is an inappropriate expressive
> device simply because we can say with some certainty that it was
> unknown on the
> classical clarinet. It is impossibl to vibrato on a classical
> clarinet with a classical mouthpiece(Grenser or Simiot) and so
> there seems little justification for it.

Jonathan Cohler wrote back in Feb, 1995 on Klarinet (the entire
lengthy posting is available at
http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet/Study/Vibrato.html

> As for Mozart, last time I spoke with Charlie Neidich, he gave me
> some information, of which I cannot recall the details right now,
> that indicates Stadler may have used a noticeable continuous
> vibrato as well! I'll get the details from Charlie, if people are
> interested.

Jonathan - I can't find any followup on your conversation with
Charlie Neidich in the archives, and at least _I'm_ interested
(and I'm a people :). Can you remember or have notes on what
Charlie related to you?

Thanks,
--
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