Klarinet Archive - Posting 000939.txt from 1999/10

From: Shouryu Nohe <jnohe@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Cannonball
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:40:47 -0400

On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Kevin Fay (LCA) wrote:

> 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.

Hmm...I play a Richie Cole Meyer 5M...but hey, like you said, a lot is
talent, and the pysiologics. I'm pretty dang-onned slim. Let's see how
the formula works for me...

Meyer 5M-RC + Selmer Super 80 II + big, sarcastic mouth + open, empty

cranial cavity + luck and a MikeGarciaWannaBe attitude @-----.

Not quite the same outcome, it seems. ^_^

> . . . just don't underestimate the talent.

I wonder how many parts of MikeGarciaWannaBe attitude are needed to
substitue talent...

J. Shouryu Nohe
http://web.nmsu.edu/~jnohe
Professor of SCSM102, New Mexico State Univ.
"If I wanted a 'job,' I'd have gone music ED, thank you very much!"

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