Klarinet Archive - Posting 000191.txt from 2002/11

From: "Russell Harlow" <lharlow@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Methods or Studies For Improving Tone and Tonguing
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 12:20:20 -0500

Thank you for the correction. But all it takes is the omission of a few
words. The point is--Find a quality that you love - "hear it in your minds
ear" before you play a note. To quote David Weber, woodwind magazine vol 2
No. 5 1949 "The first and most important step, in my opinion, in producing
any kind of a tone, is to have in your minds ear a clear conception of the
tone you want to reproduce. Without this all important conception, all the
books and articles giving technical advise loose most of their usefulness."
This quote was repeated by Frederick Thurston in his "CLARINET TECHNIQUE"
1956.

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>From: "William Semple" <wsemple@-----.com>
>To: <klarinet@-----.org>
>Subject: Re: [kl] Methods or Studies For Improving Tone and Tonguing
>Date: Mon, Nov 4, 2002, 6:54 AM
>

> HEAR HEAR!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel Leeson" <leeson0@-----.net>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 7:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [kl] Methods or Studies For Improving Tone and Tonguing
>
>
>> Russell Harlow wrote:
>> > REGARDLESS OF AGE-----IT HAS BEEN MY EXPERIENCE THAT ONE NEEDS TO HAVE
> AN
>> > INTENSE AND PASSIONATE DESIRE TO CREATE A CERTAIN QUALITY OF TONE ON AN
>> > INSTRUMENT - BE IT BRIGHT, DARK, ENGLISH, GERMAN OR AMERICAN. YOU NEED
> TO
>> > FIND A QUALITY THAT YOU LOVE. "HEAR IT" IN YOUR MIND BEFORE YOU PLAY A
> NOTE.
>> > IF YOU ARE RELAXED THE BODY WILL FOLLOW. THEN THE TECHINQUE THAT YOU ARE
>> > SEEKING WILL BECOME MORE CLEAR.
>> >
>>
>> For what it is worth, a posting that suggests that tone character can
>> have attributes such as "bright," "dark," "English," "German," or
>> "American" without an explicit, unambiguous description of each of these
>> vague, unclear, and frequently meaningless terms does little more than
>> stir up the muddy water.
>>
>> I state once again (as I have stated on a number of occasions in the
>> past), that none of these terms are helpful to any student because (a)
>> they are ephemeral and personal, (b) not descriptive of sound character,
>> and (c) relics of a era when such descriptive terms were presumed to be
>> clear and meaningful; i.e., simply stating them would allow a student to
>> understand what it was he or she had to achieve.
>>
>> They (these terms used to describe sound character) are little more than
>> baloney and doo-doo! It is time once again to argue that, wordwise, the
>> king is wearing no clothes.
>>
>> Dan
>> --
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>> **Dan Leeson **
>> **leeson0@-----.net **
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