Klarinet Archive - Posting 000427.txt from 2002/06

From: Karl Krelove <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: "Buzzy" sound ...
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 19:02:01 -0400

Which, James and Bill, was why Gigliotti discarded so many reeds. It wasn't
that he couldn't play on them - he got what seemed like serviceable sounds
when I studied with him (30+ years ago) out of reeds I couldn't at the time
begin to play on. He listened for a very specific sound quality when he
tried a reed. If it didn't respond easily, he could do wonders with a piece
of Dutch rush. If it didn't make the sound he wanted, he felt there wasn't
much to be done, at least not in an amount of time he considered reasonable.

Many of those discards ended up on students' mouthpieces, by the way. They
were perfectly playable, and he knew it. He gave them away if you came in
with one he didn't like.

Karl Krelove

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James E. Jackson [mailto:J.E.Jackson@-----.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 6:42 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] Re: "Buzzy" sound ...
>
>
> I agree 100% here, it's all down to the type of sound you're aiming for,
> and also no doubt to a certain extent to your instrument too.
>
> I discard about 20% of my reeds I buy, but not always because they're
> unplayable, but more often they don't have the tone I want.
>
> James
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Wright [mailto:w7wright@-----.net]
> Sent: 14 June 2002 10:31 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Re: "Buzzy" sound ...
>
>
> <><> JEDISUSHI wrote:
> First we must accept the fact that 90% of the reeds we can get
> commercially are bad, sub-standard, and should never be used even in the
> practice room.
>
>
>
> Well, Jedi, I'd like to make Sushi of that comment. It's true that
> Gigliotti was once quoted as saying: "I went through maybe 1,500 reeds
> and found 200 with possibilities, not necessarily playable." But this
> quote was from years ago, and I'm sure that equipment and methods and
> materials have improved much since then.
>
> I doubt that even 5% of the Klarinet audience discard 90% of the reeds
> they buy. This returns us to the issue that many (most?) clarinetists
> want to get different sounds out of their equipment in different
> situations. If you can do so, then you can find value in more than 10%
> of the reeds you buy.
>
> If adjusting reeds has no other value, it teaches you how to hear and
> cope with differences between individual reeds.
>
> Cheers,
> Bill
>
> ================
>
> If I had Stadler's mouthpiece, would I play better? Or do I need his
> ligature also? Or perhaps he and I are different persons? If I had
> Mozart's pen, would I compose better?
>
>
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