Klarinet Archive - Posting 000283.txt from 2001/12

From: Mark B <markbmtl@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Audience view irrelevant?
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 16:23:12 -0500

If a good sound can be produced, what does it matter?

I just learned Bob Crowly of the Montréal Symphony
uses plastic reeds....response: Huh!

-Mark
--
Mark Bradley
McGill University
Montréal, Québec

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Don Yungkurth" <clarinet@-----.net>
> To: "Klarinet" <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 4:01 PM
> Subject: [kl] Audience view irrelevant? - Tony Pay
>
>
> > Tony Pay wrote:
> >
> > >On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 09:27:48 -0800,
> kevinfay@-----.com said:
> >
> > >> When I experimented with Legere reeds, I was
> pleased that my wife
> > >> could not tell the difference in my sound
> between cane and plastic.
> >
> > >Whether or not a member of the audience, however
> special, can tell the
> > >difference between cane and plastic, is quite
> irrelevant to the serious
> > >player, IMO.
> >
> > The words about Legere experience attributed to
> Kevin Fay were mine
> > originally, not Kevin's. While not professional,
> I consider myself a
> > "serious" player, but that seems irrelevant to the
> discussion.
> >
> > I agree that it is not of major significance
> whether the audience "can
> tell
> > the difference between cane and plastic", which is
> what I originally
> stated.
> > I thought that I could tell the difference between
> the cane and plastic
> when
> > I was playing, felt it was not a big difference,
> and wasn't surprised that
> > my audience could not hear a change. I was
> "pleased" by this only in the
> > sense that I felt this gave me an additional
> option in choice of
> acceptable
> > reeds for performance. My original comments were
> preceded by discussions
> > on "Klarinet" about a player's perception of
> his/her sound and what is
> heard
> > by the audience.
> >
> > Tony - Would you please expand your comments? Did
> you consider just the
> > part about cane vs. plastic irrelevant or the part
> about audience views as
> > well?
> >
> > Don Yungkurth (clarinet@-----.net)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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