Klarinet Archive - Posting 000420.txt from 2002/11

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Dark Sound
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:54:09 -0500

On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 09:44:36 -0700, wsemple@-----.com said:

> This is an interesting point. But I think the journey would be
> illuminating, even if ultimately the result is personal. These terms
> still exist, for better or worse.

Well, they exist in places like this list. On the whole, as Dan's
article amply demonstrates, they're not very useful.

> The process would encourage listening to other artists, understanding
> the sound, relating the ear to technique, improve teaching, and open a
> discourse that would inform, in my opinion, more than confuse.

Maybe. I don't have any great hopes myself.

I spent some time today trying to show someone who had a really quite
acceptable and modifiable sound (those two terms are almost synonymous
for me, BTW) that he needed to be able to change his sound more on a
short timescale in order to make the music he was playing live more
fully. But my assessment -- I hope I'm wrong -- is that he didn't want
to know. (I could see his eyes glaze over. He was an American, of
course.)

Someone who doesn't understand that, doesn't understand that. And
generalisations about 'the sound of clarinettist X' as compared to 'the
sound of clarinettist Y' aren't going to help, are they? We'll have
even more people --there are actually enough of them around already --
who think that 'looking like Humphrey Bogart' is the way to go.

Tony
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