Klarinet Archive - Posting 000273.txt from 1999/05

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: Different pitched Clarinets timbral qualities
Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 00:17:04 -0400

At 09:38 PM 5/8/99 -0400, David Blumberg wrote:
>Some players can tell the difference between the A, and the Bb, C and what
>system is being played just by hearing it (the timbre of the notes being
>played, and the note connections sounding different).
>
Even if I concede that SOME PLAYERS can make this distinction, I submit
that the vast, VAST majority of players and listeners cannot, rendering the
fuss over using different clarinets for reasons OTHER THAN ease of playing
in a given key moot. Yes, the throat tones, break, etc., occur in
different places in a passage. But that is cheating. Do the notes
themselves really sound that much different to some people? Does a clarion
concert G, for example, vary so much from Bb to A to C clarinet that it is
immediately recognizeable to those golden-eared individuals? Or would a
given passage, played in isolation and as written on one or the other
instrument to someone WITHOUT perfect pitch be identifiable by timbre alone?

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