Klarinet Archive - Posting 000313.txt from 1999/08

From: Larry Paikin <larrypaikin@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] [Fwd: WOODEN MOUTHPIECES]
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 17:56:46 -0400

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Subject: Re: WOODEN MOUTHPIECES
From: "Charles Maurer" <maurerc@-----.CA>
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You just forwarded me a message in which Avrahm Galper wrote:

>> Perhaps the common use of wood mouthpieces at the beginning of the 19th
>> century may explain the descriptions of the tone that the early clarinet
>> players had.

Those clarinet players came from the school of wind playing whose aural
model was bel canto singing rather than the bands and other frightening
hordes of today. That is quite enough to account for the difference. The
difference equipment makes, although real, is relatively small. Leslie
Schatzenberger (Norrington's original clarinetist) sounds like Leslie
Schatzenberger no matter what instrument she plays.

Charlie

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