Klarinet Archive - Posting 000815.txt from 2000/05

From: "redcedar" <redcedar@-----.au>
Subj: RE: [kl] My dream
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 20:02:58 -0400

Oh, no!

More a delightful case of Disraelian self-mockery - with a pertinent and
pointed message.

Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Black [mailto:clarinet1@-----.uk]
Subject: Re: [kl] My dream

Ah, the British sense of irony.

(in case anyone was taking this seriously)

;-)
Ian
(in Scotland)
----- Original Message -----
From: Tony Pay <Tony@-----.uk>
Subject: [kl] My dream

> For many years now, I've wanted to have a really respectable embouchure
> and address to the instrument. I know I should have worked on it
> earlier, but somehow I was too seduced by people asking me to play in
> concerts.
>
> I know I should have been much more serious. And now it's probably too
> late.
>
> My dream was to play without my upper teeth touching the mouthpiece, no
> biting, and with a really flat chin. I know, because so many
> intelligent people have told me over the years, that this is basis of
> the only sure way to the true clarinet sound, the sound that all of the
> clarinet legends made, each in his or her own way.
>
> And I wanted to be able to touch the tip of the reed with the tip of my
> tongue, too -- and, *consistently*.
>
> Why don't I do this???
>
> I so often fall short of the ideal. I can't stand it.
>
> Fingers too -- not claws, but gently curved always, without superfluous
> tension. NO gripping the instrument at dramatic moments! (How often
> I've yielded to *that* temptation.)
>
> I feel bad also that I never really learnt how to adjust reeds
> *properly*. There are books that can help you, I know, like 'The Art of
> Clarinetistry', by William Stubbins. Why could I never manage to
> summon up the concentration to get through this marvellous book? I have
> no self-discipline.
>
> And I never found the artist/artisan genius mouthpiece-maker that I
> could work with intimately. My dream was for us to create together (and
> then give to the world) our version of the truth; a truth that, without
> negating the fundamental designs, apertures or facings of the great
> players of the past, nevertheless contrived to add at least one small
> contribution toward the ideal of the perfect mouthpiece.
>
> But I never looked hard enough, so we never met, lazy sod that I am.
>
> I'm really ashamed of myself, you know? I feel as though I've wasted my
> life, and let you all down.
>
> I'm sorry, everyone.
>
> Tony
> --
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> | |ay Oxford OX2 6RE www.gmn.com/artists/welcome.asp
> tel/fax 01865 553339
>
>
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