Klarinet Archive - Posting 000086.txt from 2001/05

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] Reed Balance
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 05:59:11 -0400

At 05:43 PM 5/2/01 -0400, you wrote:
>At 09:30 PM 5/2/2001 -0500, Roger Garrett wrote:
>The original poster said that, shifted slightly to one side, the reed
>played "really sweet." I take that to mean it did not require further
>attention in regard to tone, response, feel, articulation, etc. It played
>PERFECTLY when slightly offset, needing no further balancing. To insist
>that it must adjusted so it can be symmetrically placed on the mouthpiece
>as well is to engage in unnecessary fastidiousness, bordering on the
>obsessive-compulsive.

Yes Bill, I know that.

My point was that - it can sound really sweet but feel terrible - that is
where balancing comes into play. I was inferring that balancing does more
than affect the sound quality.

Best wishes,
Roger Garrett

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

"A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes
another's."
Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825)

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