Klarinet Archive - Posting 000740.txt from 2001/01

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: RE: [kl] Mouthpieces
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:17:05 -0500

At 06:22 PM 01/22/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm only suggesting that if A can produce his sound on a Vandoren M15, then
>at least I know that A's type of sound _can_ be produced on an M15. It's
>almost certain I will _not_ be able to reproduce A's actual sound
>characteristics because of all the variables other posters have cited, not
>to mention that my skill level may never approach A's. But at least I will
>know that the sound I'd like to produce can be gotten from an M15, and that
>I therefore have the potential to produce something similar with it, which
>is something I may not know at the outset about any other mouthpiece.

Only if A's M15 is identical to your's. The odds are, it isn't.

Sincerely,
Roger Garrett

Roger Garrett
Clarinet Professor
Director, Symphonic Winds
Advisor, IWU Recording Services
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
Phone: (309) 556-3268
Fax: (309) 556-3121

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