Klarinet Archive - Posting 001026.txt from 2000/05

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] Tone -- online experiment
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 17:24:59 -0400

<><> But you need a clear theory to test before data is any use to
you.
I think this experiment would be useless. (No offence meant, Bill.)

Tony

None taken. I abandoned the idea a few days ago myself.
Developing and abandoning ideas is part of the learning process, isn't
it?

My principle reason for abandoning the experiment was my new
awareness of how often a good musician changes his or her tone during a
single piece or even during a single measure. Perhaps (probably?) a
large group of musicians would agree substantially (but not 100%) on
whether a particular steady tone with no other sound to provide context
was 'dark' or 'bright', but that's not what music is. I understand that
much.
One outcome of all this discussion is that I have changed my warmup
routine of scales and long tones. I don't now how long I'll stick with
this, but as I play each note, I start piano and increase to forte and
go back down to piano. Simultaneously I try to begin each note
'focused' and end it 'diffused'. It's a lot for me to think about all
at once, especially since I've just included D-above-the-staff in my
routine for the first time and I have difficulty holding this note under
the simplest of conditions .... but I'm working on it.

Cheers,
Bill

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