Klarinet Archive - Posting 000744.txt from 2001/01

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mouthpieces
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:36:36 -0500

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rgarrett@-----.edu]
> >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.
>
This is only necessary if I'm trying the impossible, to sound identical to
A. But I'm only emulating a general sound quality, a direction. I am very
aware of the differences between individual mouthpieces of the same line.
But two M15's stand a better statistical chance of being close in potential
response than an M15 and another maker's or manufacturer's work.

Karl

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