Klarinet Archive - Posting 000421.txt from 2002/11

From: "William Semple" <wsemple@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Dark Sound
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:54:10 -0500

Humphrey Bogart?

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From: "Tony Pay" <Tony@-----.uk>
Subject: Re: [kl] Dark Sound

> 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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> ... Is there another word for synonym?
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