Klarinet Archive - Posting 001058.txt from 2000/03

From: mickey aka <mickey_______1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Reed's mode of vibration
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 18:18:55 -0500

No more "out there" than the rest of us on this
list...Smiles.

-- LeliaLoban@-----.com wrote:
> Tony Pay wrote,
> >What is 'normal' or 'standard' depends very much on
> your point of view.
> >Different people choose different setups that have
> the reed close
> >completely for more or less of the time. I
> outlined the two extremes,
> >but obviously there is a spectrum of possibilities,
> achievable by
> >varying the parameters of mouthpiece facing, reed
> strength, embouchure
> >position and quality, tongue position and so on.
>
> >What is 'normal' also depends on which note you
> happen to be playing in
> >a given passage, and whether you want that note to
> have the quality of
> >complete reed closure. As I've remarked here
> before, the notion that a
> >good player plays with just one sound in even quite
> a simple sequence of
> >notes is an illusion. It's the sort of illusion
> that makes you think
> >that there is such a thing as the 'sound' of your
> own voice. (Just say
> >a few words very slowly to yourself, if you don't
> believe this.) A
> >clarinet has nothing like this degree of tonal
> variation, but excursions
> >into what I called 'echoton' occur more frequently
> than you might
> >imagine, particularly in soft passages.
>
> Reading this makes me think that I should record and
> play back more often. I
> probably have no idea of how I really sound.
> Putting the instrument in my
> mouth, where it rattles my brains (if any), must
> cause all sorts of hearing
> distortion and causes the Wishful Thinking Circuit
> to turn on automatically,
> too.
>
> When I was a high school freshman, preparing for my
> first public speaking
> competition, the forensics coach taped my speech.
> Listening to the sound of
> my voice *from the outside* for the first time gave
> me a sudden understanding
> of a scene that had taken place years earlier, when
> I was nine years old and
> moved to a new neighborhood. A neighbor's child,
> when introduced to me,
> squirmed uneasily and then blurted out, "Mommy, why
> does that little girl
> talk like a cowboy?" My reaction at the time (I'd
> absorbed my family's
> fierce loyalties) was something along the lines of,
> "Hey, kid, you wanna go
> out back and play Range War? You be the cowboy and
> I'll be the FARMER!" And
> I knew that whooping cough had damaged my vocal
> chords -- but still, to hear
> a gravelly whiskey tenor with a Dogpatch accent
> speaking *my words* -- oh,
> Saint Toad! At home, I sat down with my father's
> tape recorder and drilled
> myself until I could pass for female and literate.
> So with all that in mind,
> I now have a bad feeling that when I think I hear
> Mozart, my clarinet is
> probably playing the Florence Foster Jenkins
> version....
>
> Lelia
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a
> message.
>
>
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