Klarinet Archive - Posting 000287.txt from 1999/05

From: "Ed Maurey" <edsshop@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: Timbre of notes
Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 10:27:47 -0400

I, like many clarinetists, have deluded myself into thinking that I posess
"golden ears". I remember one time I was impressed with my stand partner's
sound. I thought he was transposing an A part on his R13 Bb. I told him
that he and his old Buffet sounded great....I had forgotten that had
borrowed my own Selmer Series 9 A for that movement. So much for my golden
ears!

Ed Maurey----------
> From: David Blumberg <reedman@-----.com>
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] re: Timbre of notes
> Date: Sunday, May 09, 1999 9:49 AM
>
> 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).
> >
> Bill wrote:
> 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?
>

> Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
>
> -------------------------------------
> Bill, of course the throat tones, and over the break would be cheating.
**
> I do not have perfect pitch**, but can tell the timbres of the notes, and
> name pitches by that. Let's do an example - 3 notes clarion E,F,G on the
Bb
> Clarinet would be F,Gb,Ab on the A Clarinet, and D,Eb,F on the C
Clarinet
> (to preserve the actual pitch in each example).
> It would be obvious what Clarinet was being used by the TIMBRE ALONE.
There
> are probably lots of players who can do that.
>
>
> David Blumberg
> playit@-----.com
> http://www.mytempo.com
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