Klarinet Archive - Posting 000424.txt from 2002/03

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Technique vs. materials (was Gonzalez reeds)
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 15:57:36 -0500

On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 11:43:45 -0800 (PST), w6w@-----.net said:

> My comment was that I myself can't accomplish the same effect of
> "moving the problem around" with mouthshape and embouchure. And
> therefore equipment is probably more significant to novices such as
> myself than it is to proficient musicians.

The thing is that you don't move the problem around.

The problem rather moves around with the equipment that you have. And
it lives in the mismatch between what you want to do and what the
instrument allows you to do.

So what you do, with your mouthshape and so on, is to move the
*solution* around.

And further -- and this is perhaps the most important bit -- 'what you
want to do' (and therefore, the solution) lives in what the music
requires you to do.

It has to be that way, because music is like that. If 'what you wanted
to do' turned out always to be the same thing, then you could adjust the
equipment to do just that thing.

But actually, the best you can do is to adjust it so that you can
produce all the different things that the piece requires.

A good exercise is to copy other people. Such an exercise forces you to
appreciate the mismatch between what you *might* want to do and what
you can do. If you succeed in copying others, then you stand more
chance of being able to do what *you* think the music wants.

Tony
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