Klarinet Archive - Posting 000559.txt from 2002/04

From: Glen Shannon <gshannon@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Prestige RC vs. Prestige R13
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 14:22:34 -0400

This sounds exactly the same as when people talk about wine! The
vocabulary is different but they all still mean nothing to me.
"Delicate", "robust", "clean finish" etc. Forgive me for being a
boor, but I can taste tannins or not, and can judge in a blind test
whether a wine is red or white but that's about all.

-Glen

>Now having said that (and with absolute sincerity, no kidding), I have
>to add that I see you as a victim of a disease known as meaningless
>clarinet terminologitis. Referring to sound character of a clarinet
>with expressions that have little meaning and certainly no definition
>whatsoever, you have succumbed to using descriptions that are, in my
>opinion, useless.
>
>One of the things about the character of clarinet sound is that many
>clarinetists (and for years, too) have come to speak about it in ways so
>imprecise, so inexact, so totally without substance, that the world has
>turned on its head and nice people like you get sucked into the vortex
>of believing that there is (in your words) a sound that "is a little on
>the 'tinny' or 'thin' side" or a sound that is "thicker," "fatter," or
>"darker."
>

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