Klarinet Archive - Posting 000618.txt from 1999/05

From: Neil Leupold <nleupold@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Thea King
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 16:02:30 -0400

On Fri, 14 May 1999, Raymond Kong wrote:

> The funny thing is that when I meet English wind players(non clarinettist)
> and when the subject turns to clarinet tone of English and American players
> most of them says the American clarinet sounds funny to their ears ;-)

That sparks another potentially evasive topic in terms of definability.
What is the "American" tone? Many Europeans equated Benny Goodman's
rendition of the Mozart concerto as representative of the American
tone, much to many American clarinetists' horror at the time. What is
it today? Drucker's thinner and edgier tone? Something closer to Shif-
rin's rounded but focused sound? Perhaps Stoltzman's ever-changing and
metamorphosing tone quality? Something on the drier side -- perhaps
Combs? Something closer to the middle ground, say Manasse?

-- Neil

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