Klarinet Archive - Posting 000894.txt from 1999/10

From: "Kevin Fay (LCA)" <kevinfay@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Cannonball
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 03:45:28 -0400

Shouryu noted:

<<<Cannonball played tenor???

I hear a lot of saxophonists play Mercy Mercy Mercy, and they play it
trying to sound as much like Cannonball as possible, and do a relatively
good job. But they do it on tenor. Never the less, he played it on alto,
and I would love to know how he got it to sound like he did.>>>

Cannonball played alto. He didn't play tenor on any recording I have of
him, and that is significantly more than a few. He just got a *very* big
sound. How he did it can perhaps be best expressed mathematically:

Meyer 5M + King Super 20 + big, open throat + enormous talent @-----.

Legions of alto players play the Meyer 5M; Cannonball used an older model,
however, with a bigger bore. The King Super 20 had an enormous, dark sound
too. These were but 2 factors, however--many people have tried the same
setup in the hope of replicating the tone, but failed. Physiologically,
Cannonball was a large man with a very large neck & oral cavity; perhaps
that had a bit to do with it, too.

. . . just don't underestimate the talent.

kjf

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