Klarinet Archive - Posting 000617.txt from 1998/01

From: Jonathan Cohler <cohler@-----.net>
Subj: Re: RE Vibrato
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 14:41:23 -0500

Michael Whight wrote:

>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.

According to who or what? I have never heard any such evidence.

And I believe there is evidence to the contrary. I don't have the
reference at hand, but I recall having read that Mozart described the
playing of his drinking buddy, clarinetist friend Anton Stadler with the
same adjectives as he used to describe the singing of his vibrato-using
soprano singers.

> It is impossibl to vibrato on a classical clarinet with
>a classical mouthpiece(Grenser or Simiot) and so there seems little
>justification for it.

Impossible according to who? I can do it.

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Jonathan Cohler
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