Klarinet Archive - Posting 000928.txt from 2000/05

From: George Kidder <gkidder@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Tone -- a neurological approach
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 21:10:32 -0400

I did think you would hear the tongue in cheek in my comment. If I
remember right, you reported executing some considerable mayhem on that
poor student who used the "d" word. As I am sure you did nothing of the
kind, I had hoped you would take it as it was intended.

Guess I have to learn to make a smiley face!

At 04:38 PM 5/19/00 -0700, you wrote:
>George, I am not in the business of chewing anyone up. I think that
>people are giving this matter the consideration it deserves and I'm
>staying out of it. And certainly, no one should reject any kind of a
>rational answer to this question simply because they have a fear of
>being argued with. Frankly, that is part of the reason why we are in
>this position in the first place; i.e., a vocabulary has grown up like a
>chancer on a tree and very few people have questioned its descriptive
>terminology.
>
>I think that many of the right people are doing so in a constructive,
>intelligent way. No one is happier than I that clarinet players are
>thinking seriously about this question.
>
>Besides, I'm thinking about buying a brand new basset horn and getting
>back to playing again. No clarinet, mind you, just basset horn. And so
>I have to figure out how to get that nice dark sound on a cocobola wood
>b.h. with a wooden bell and a brillhart white mouthpiece with a black
>patch, just like the one Woody Herman had in 1942.

Oh, the Brillhart was like the one Woody Herman had. I was preparing to
doubt that he had ever had a basset horn - or probably even ever heard of
one.
>
>George Kidder wrote:
>>
>> At 10:40 AM 5/19/00 -0700, Paul wrote:
>>
>> >So I challenge you to give me a solid reason why we should not use
"dark" or
>> >"bright" (and not the risk thing again) and to come up with alternatives.
>> >
>> >-- Paul
>> >
>> Because Dan will chew you up!
>>
>> George Kidder
>> Bar Harbor, ME
>>
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