Klarinet Archive - Posting 000386.txt from 2002/03

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Technique vs. materials
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 21:12:56 -0500

--- "W. Wright" <w6w@-----.net> wrote:

> So - do you do without the sound that you want, in hopes that, someday,
> you'll be able to achieve it unassisted, or do you go for the equipment
> which gives you want you want today?

Struggling unnecessarily to produce a certain sound or effect, on equipment
that isn't naturally inclined to help you do so, is basic masochism. When
you can get superior equipment, you get it. And if you find yourself in
a situation where you must work with figuratively (and sometimes literally)
"resistant" equipment, the flexibility of technique that will allow you to
compensate will likely have been born of advances that were made on better
equipment to begin. An exception, of course, would be where the state of
the art itself is in a primitive/underevolved state, like performing on
period instruments, I imagine. Then, as Tony Pay has done, you become
a virtuoso within the state of the art, in which case it's not masochistic,
for practitioners of early music play on period instruments for a very
good reason. But even those period instruments need to be in good
mechanical adjustment.

Neil

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