Klarinet Archive - Posting 000381.txt from 2000/08

From: Audrey Travis <vsofan@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Fw: [kl] Unloading.....
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:01:51 -0400

Tony
Many orchestral musicians do indeed wear ear plugs. My teacher wears them when
instruments or voices are too overwhelming over a lengthy time period. Some
pieces virtually beg for them, like Janacek's Glagolitic Mass - our Vancouver
Symphony performed this last week with our local Bach Choir and the City if
Birmingham Symphony Chorus. This was a wonderful piece of music, but the 200
voice strong choir literally and musically pasted us back in our seats with the
sheer volume of gorgeous sound they produced. My teacher's wife (ist violin)
said it was so loud in rehearsals that it hurt their ears. It wasn't so bad
during the performance because of all the soft bodies absorbing sound. Unless
you're masochistic, you wear earplugs.

By the way, as a band teacher myself, I'll be getting ear plugs before the
beginning of this school year, too.

Best wishes

Audrey

Tony Wakefield wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tony Pay <Tony@-----.uk>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: 15 August 2000 00:57
> Subject: Re: [kl] Fw: [kl] Unloading.....
>
> On Mon, 14 Aug 2000 20:21:06 +0100, tony-wakefield@-----.net said:
> > > Joking apart, I am sill unsure as to whether it is BOTH the "dropping
> > > out of the lower partials" when trying to hear one`s own high note,
> > > AND the additional hassle of reeds/mouthpiece/embouchure control etc
> > > which makes the acquisition of "good" tone more difficult than the low
> > > register.
>
> Tony Pay replied:
> > Well....
> > Suppose there is such a thing as a 'good' tone. Then it's necessarily
> > characterised by a relationship between the strength of the partials,
> > because that's what tone *is*, for a given pitch. Then, other things
> > being equal, it should be *easier* to learn to establish such a
> > relationship between fewer partials (higher notes) than it is to
> > establish such a relationship between more partials (lower notes).
>
> Tony W, says:
> It`s not easier tho` is it? Because of the higher notes being more
> "invasively detrimental" to one`s ear(?), than the warmly heard lower notes.
> Would the >ear, (nose & throat) specialists I wonder, >abolish these high
> notes in order to preserve the health of the human ear? Silly, but
> humorous - well I thought so - - -
> Time for a syringe out - - - or rather ear plugs? I wonder do any musicians
> wear them. Post
> a short time ago discussed brass players having to wear them due to the ever
> expanding size of bores -
> DON`T SAY A WORD!!!
> Best,
> Tony W.
>
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