Klarinet Archive - Posting 000828.txt from 2002/10

From: "Tim Roberts" <timr@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: What makes the biggest difference, the horn or the player?
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 16:43:17 -0500

On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 06:01:29 -0700, "WILLIAM SEMPLE" <wsemple@-----.com> wrote:
>
>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?
>...
>Players swear by this horn, that set-up, etc. How much of the result is the
>player simply swearing by himself or herself?

It is been asserted on this list that the impact of any particular factor on a
player's sound is inversely proportional to the distance of that factor from
the player's mouth. Thus, in decreasing order of importance: embouchure, reed,
mouthpiece, ligature, barrel, instrument.

I find this to be both intuitively satisfying and empirically true (for my
small sample).

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- Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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