Klarinet Archive - Posting 000096.txt from 1998/07

From: <Maestro645@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mozart and the V word
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 19:50:53 -0400

This is probably going off at a whole other tangent, but here goes anyhow:
Modern pieces, of course, can be done with vibrato (with exceptions, of
course). With classical pieces classical clarinettists in that time period
didn't use vibrato, so I was told by one teacher. And little things like that
it's nice (not mandatory, if you are doing it just for the fun of it) to carry
on tradition. However, I was told that if a person wished to, they could use
only the SLIGHTEST of vibrato on the high notes, just to retain some warmth
and sparkle, without killing the ears with harshness. And my former teacher
also said that in order to control the sound and control up high, it is very
well possible that classical-period clarinettists used that slight method.
It's vibrato, but not really the same thing, know what I mean?
Just a little input from my background.
Chris Hoffman

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