Klarinet Archive - Posting 000005.txt from 1998/10

From: Nicholas Yuk Sing Yip <nyip@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] playing loud and soft
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 12:24:29 -0400

I feel like asking this out of the blue but anyway. Just yesterday my
teacher asked me to play loud and I played loud, however that was not
enough for him so I played louder. I thought that the first time I played
loud was too loud because I have played that loud before in ensembles when
asked for "forte" and the conductor has said that was too loud. My teacher
then asked me to play soft so I played as soft as I could and he said that
was too soft, so I played a little louder. Before, when I played this loud
the conductor considered this "forte".

What is considered loud and what is considered soft?

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