Klarinet Archive - Posting 000318.txt from 2000/04
From: "Michael Lawrence" <belgarath10@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] re: Tone - the quick way
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 15:37:19 -0400
I live in Lubbock (missed the ClarinetFest, though- was just starting
clarinet, and there aren't many teachers who plan out everything for the
students, hehehe). There are many opportunities for me to listen, and I try
to every chance I get, but I can't drive, so that limits things quite a bit
(parents busy often). I have been told that I have good tone/sound, and
have made area and such... I just know I would be that much better a player
if I knew how to work with reeds. My private teacher has just now started
to, what I feel, anyway, actually teach. I am (after 2 years) starting to
have to learn scales, etc., and I actually enjoy knowing that I am making
progress.
Michael L.
P.S. I apologize to anyone that thinks this should not be public (or however
one would put that...) but I figure there are at least a few students like
me out there, and they can benefit from this exchange just as I can:).
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From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subject: RE: [kl] re: Tone - the quick way
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 15:18:30 -0400
Michael, do you study with a private clarinet teacher? Is there a
professional orchestra or chamber music outlet near you (I don't know where
you live)? The most important things for you right now are to hear good
clarinet playing and to have someone who plays well give you feedback about
the sounds you're producing. To accomplish your "wish to improve" your
sound, you need some fairly clear idea of what is wrong with it that needs
improvement. Certainly, just taking the next reed from the box and plunking
it on the mouthpiece (as you've said yourself) won't give you any
consistency. But choosing good reeds involves making judgments about whether
or not the reed helps you produce the sound you want. Hence you need to have
a sound in mind that you want to produce. In a way, it isn't choosing good
reeds that turns out to be the fundamental problem, its choosing good
sounds.
Karl Krelove
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