Klarinet Archive - Posting 000892.txt from 2000/05

From: charette@-----.org
Subj: Re: [kl] Tone -- a neurological approach
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 13:04:15 -0400

Paul wrote:
>But that comes when people don't realize that they have differing ideals of a dark sound, and someone goes and buys a mouthpiece on a friends suggestion that it will "darken" their tone, when it actually "brightens" their sound (according to their arbritrary scale).

and then wrote in the very next paragraph:

>I still hold that the dark-bright scale is very useful in discussion and in performance, even though there is a (minimal) risk of confusion when using that scale.

Huh? First you say there's a possibility of maximal confusion ("brightening" instead of "darkening" when trying a mouthpiece) and then say there's minimal confusion. It can't be both ways. There needs to be some commonality between the people involved to make any sense of the words. Face-to-face it's still hard (because one or more of us must make the mental switch from _our_ idea of darkness and brightness, whatever they mean, to someone else's idea) , but as soon as there's any separation of the people in time or space the words are laden with ambiguity.

But feel free to use them. Just don't make the mistake that what you're talking about is remotely understandable _to me_. I need something more concrete, like "listen to X in their recording of Y".

Maybe I'm just dense.

Mark Charette@-----.org

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