Klarinet Archive - Posting 000138.txt from 2000/12

From: "Tony Wakefield" <tony-wakefield@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Rate of Progress
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 06:31:00 -0500

As long as you`re not fumING Bill, then all`s well that ends well.
Best,
Tony W.
Geeeee, keep UP the good work - - - -

----- Original Message -----
From: "William Wright" <Bilwright@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] Rate of Progress

> <><> I wrote:
> I realize that high notes are part of music, but, truly, I don't enjoy
> the clarinet's sound when it gets way up there -- not even when a
> virtuoso is playing.
>
>
>
> My language was sloppy. I should have qualified my statement by
> saying "Bb_ or _A_ clarinet." I enjoy hearing altissimo on an Eb or
> flute or piccolo. I mention this because somebody once asked if my
> hearing was OK in the higher frequencies. I can hear high notes just
> fine.
> My perception is that the tone of a lower pitched instrument
> 'narrows down' when pushed to its limits, by which I mean that --- IMO,
> I do wish I could measure some of this stuff --- there are one or two
> fewer audible partials in an altissimo note on a Bb or A, but not on an
> Eb or flute.
>
> .....anyway, thank you for the forgiving words, Tony and Dee.
> Just for the heck of it, I played a scale up to high G tonight. So
> long as I'm slurring slowly upwards from something lower, my tuner says
> that I can get there.... but it's not a pretty sound. I wonder if
> termites are as sensitive as hamsters and dogs are? Several of my
> neighbors have needed fumigation recently, but the inspector said that
> I'm clean, and he was surprised since my house is nearly 40 years old
> and has never been fumigated during the 35 years that I've lived in it.
>
> Cheers,
> Bill

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