Klarinet Archive - Posting 001096.txt from 1999/04

From: "Ed Maurey" <edsshop@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Leblanc Concerto/Opus
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:57:50 -0400

Actually, Tony, it was a rather mediocre reed not very well wetted. I was
a bit embarrassed by my tone in that music store...but the intonation was
teriffic in spite of it all!

Ed Maurey----------
> From: Tony Pay <Tony@-----.uk>
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Re: Leblanc Concerto/Opus
> Date: Sunday, April 25, 1999 5:00 PM
>
> On Sun, 25 Apr 1999 10:42:04 -0700, wde1@-----.com said:
>
> > Regarding Ed Maurey's claim of "perfect tuning" with the Concerto/Opus
> > - both I and the guy next to me in the local band (he has a DMA in
> > clarinet performance; I don't even know my scales) play Opusses
> > (Opera?), but neither of us would make the claim that every note is in
> > tune so that the needle on the tuner acts as if it were stuck. Tuning
> > is darned good, but I think Roger Garrett's wry response is not
> > without merit.
> >
> > Bill Edinger
>
> I too appreciated Roger's response. But I also appreciated Ed's
> subsequent reply. And in fact I felt slightly chastened in my
> appreciation of Roger's response as a result of what Ed said.
>
> Ed's reply made it clear he had been talking about a one-off experience
> that had surprised him. He hadn't claimed that that experience was
> generalisable across all playing situations, even though he complimented
> Tom on the design of the Leblanc.
>
> The point was that his experience with the tuner was at least *possible*
> on his Leblanc.
>
> I too very occasionally play really well in tune without very much
> effort, perhaps better in tune than I 'deserve'. It's because
> everything happens to be going my way on that occasion.
>
> Usually it's something that occurs in a real musical situation, but I'm
> sure that I'd then also be able to match the tuner, if I tried.
>
> On this occasion, Ed found that being able to match the tuner occurred
> practically without *any effort at all*, and he wanted to tell us that.
>
> I wonder whether perhaps he had a particularly good reed that day, as
> well as playing on the Leblanc.
>
> Tony
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