Klarinet Archive - Posting 000812.txt from 2002/04

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] temperament and key "personality"
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 23:14:22 -0400

From: Bill Edinger [mailto:wde2@-----.com]
>However, it was once pointed out
>to me by an accomplished musician (even if he was a conductor) that some
>keys do have a "brighter" (!) sound for string players because of the
>greater frequency of open strings.

As a former "string" player (guitar, fretless bass guitar) I can say with
certainty that _I_ always avoided scales with open strings because open
strings by their very nature are uncontrollable - "what you hear is what you
get". But most of the time I could avoid open strings by playing a different
position - only in particular instances where you actually wanted to or at
the extremes of (low) range did you have no choice except to play an open
string.

Mark C.

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