Klarinet Archive - Posting 000827.txt from 2002/10

From: Karl Krelove <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] What makes the biggest difference, the horn or the player?
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 16:32:25 -0500

Bill, I'm not sure what "flow" the "best musicians" might be deciding to "go
with," especially since it is much of the time they who set the standard.

In any case, as has been suggested many times here, commercial
considerations aside, the choice of instrument, like the choice of
mouthpiece, reed, etc., will, for most skilled players, be based largely on
what equipment enables the player to do what he/she wants to do most easily.
The music produced by a skilled player is the result of technique coupled
with a clear concept. The tool, with all the design decisions that have gone
into it, makes that musical result easier or harder to achieve. That Player
X always sounds the same doesn't mean the effort he/she puts into that sound
is the same for every instrument.

Karl Krelove

> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Wright [mailto:b5w@-----.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 3:46 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] What makes the biggest difference, the horn or the
> player?
>
>
> .....an adjunct question would be:
>
> Do the best musicians have such a clear concept of the sound they want
> that they will change their technique in order to produce this sound, no
> matter the details of the instrument they happen to have in their hands?
>
> Or perhaps they will say instead: "Hey, I'll go with the flow and
> enjoy this instrument for its own sake."
>
>

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