Klarinet Archive - Posting 000826.txt from 1999/05

From: avrahm galper <agalper@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Dark Tone
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 20:53:43 -0400

Dark Tone

I think that the talk about dark tone and the customizing the clarinet
to get a dark tone is a bit exaggerated

We all know that we have to have a conception of sound in order to
produce a clarinet sound.

I have a story:

Some years ago I was in Indiana. There was a master class given by
Alfred Prinz. One of the student was playing a Buffet, with a vandoren
reed (maybe not). The main thing about the story is that she had a
Frenchy bright sound.

Prinz asked her to let him try the clarinet. And Lo and behold, the
sound that came out was Viennese tone. And that is on a French clarinet
that he does not ordinarily play on.

So it is the conception one has to work on.
Of course if the clarinet leaks, then get it fixed. But customizing it
won't make it dark.

--
Avrahm Galper
CLARINET TONE TECHNIQUE AND STACCATO
CLARINET UPBEAT SCALES AND ARPEGGIOS
http://www.sneezy.org/avrahm_galper/index.html

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