Klarinet Archive - Posting 000313.txt from 2001/11

From: GrabnerWG@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] American "Clarinet Sound"?
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 23:31:15 -0500

Greg Smith says:

<<There are many differences in the two systems (that help us produce totally different sounds, even from the same player) that are too numerous to mention
here. We've adapted to them on a gradual basis working up to playing recitals and chamber music on each - again depending on the repertorie.>>

I can't tell you how much I agree with Greg on this point. There shouldn't be a monolithic "American Sound". I believe that we're way past that point.

>From the recordings and concerts I'm hearing these days, I find many of our great player attempting, at least, to make a "sound" that fits the music they are interpreting.

And that's a good thing, even if on a certain piece one might disagree!

Walter Grabner
www.clarinetxpress.com
Barrels - African Blackwood, Cocobolo, Delrin

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