Klarinet Archive - Posting 000694.txt from 2001/01

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mouthpieces
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 21:49:32 -0500

Having made the same suggestion, among others, in response to similar
questions in the past, I need to comment here. The point of picking a
"superstar" whose sound you admire isn't to say that his mouthpiece will
make anyone sound like him. It makes sense, though, that if you admire a
particular sound and would like to emulate it, you'd stand a better chance
if you use equipment that is capable of producing that sound. What better
proof that the equipment is _capable_ than to hear that someone else
actually produces the desired result with it?

It is, of course, emphatically _not_ reasonable to expect that simply
because you buy the same mouthpiece "superstar" A uses, you will then sound
like A does.

I should say, too, that I think this is only a starting point. Eventually,
as a student's playing matures, his concept of what a clarinet should sound
and feel like will become more personalized and will no longer be so heavily
dependent on a model. At that point, the search for equipment suited to his
individual needs becomes a more reasonable quest.

Karl Krelove

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lacy, Edwin [mailto:el2@-----.edu]
> Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 9:14 PM
> To: 'klarinet@-----.org '
> Subject: RE: [kl] Mouthpieces
>
>
> <<<Do you have a particular clarinetist whose tone you like? If so,
> try the mouthpiece that they use at a music store.>>>
>
> Sorry, but that isn't likely to work very well, unless you also have the
> same embouchure and breath support as the clarinetist superstar, and also
> unless your ears hear the sound of the clarinet in exactly the same way as
> he/she.
>
> Ed Lacy
> EL2@-----.edu
>
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