Klarinet Archive - Posting 000822.txt from 2000/11

From: LeliaLoban@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Playing too Quietly?
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:45:30 -0500

Gary Truesdail wrote,
>Of course as students develop they need to alter these definitions, as do we.
>Maybe it would help if we all contributed a multitude of descriptions of ???
>dynamic range so that we can arrive at an agreeable definition by convention
>that is divorced of any connection to previous printed definitions. Try
this:
>submit your answer to the following statements:

1. It is too soft when: the conductor, with raised eyebrows, cups a hand
around one ear.

2. It is too loud when: the conductor glares and sticks up a (sore) thumb.

2.5 It is too loud when: you're the pianist.

2.75. It is way way way too loud when: a trumpet player complains it's too
loud.

3. It is just right when: everybody pays attention to the music instead of
noticing you.

Lelia

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