Klarinet Archive - Posting 000142.txt from 2000/12

From: Ann H Satterfield <klarann@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Rate of Progress
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 08:34:54 -0500

Bill,

Maybe you would enjoy playing the bass clarinet.

AnnS

On Sat, 2 Dec 2000 22:20:28 -0800 (PST) Bilwright@-----.net (William
Wright) writes:
> <><> 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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