Klarinet Archive - Posting 000444.txt from 2002/11

From: "William Semple" <wsemple@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Dark Sound
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:54:33 -0500

I am glad we have a female perspective on this.

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From: "Christy Erickson" <perickso@-----.net>
Subject: RE: [kl] Dark Sound

>
> I confess! I'm an American, but, Humphrey Bogart?!?! Christy
> Erickson
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tony Pay [mailto:Tony@-----.uk]
> > Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 11:02 AM
> > To: klarinet@-----.org
> > 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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