Klarinet Archive - Posting 000804.txt from 2002/10

From: "WILLIAM SEMPLE" <wsemple@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] What makes the biggest difference, the horn or the player?
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 08:01:29 -0500

I am sure this issue has been tossed around before, but how much of the
difference in sonic result and performance can be attributed to either the
horn , the mouthpiece/reed setup, or the player simply getting adjusted?

I remember when Loren Kitt, the principal for the National Symphony
Orchestra (whose playing I greatly admired), switched from a pair of Buffet
Prestige to a pair of Selmers in the 1980's. I have been in music for forty
years, and I know how the ear plays tricks. But I swear that the first few
times I heard him (I was on the staff and attended almost all of the
concerts), I did not like his sound nearly as much -- it had less "bloom."

However, as time went by, either Kitt changed or I did. His sounded started
sounding like -- Loren Kitt!!

Players swear by this horn, that set-up, etc. How much of the result is the
player simply swearing by himself or herself?

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