Klarinet Archive - Posting 000456.txt from 2002/11

From: b5w@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] Dark Sound
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:54:45 -0500

Tony Pay has suggested several times that a clarinetist should be
capable of multiple tones during a single phrase.

I remember several years ago, when I first arrived here, Tony cited a
particular performer and asked, "Did you notice that he often changes
his tone from one quaver or semiquaver to the next?"

Since I'm an American, Tony's question sent me to the dictionary
immediately. Quaver? Is a clarinetist's tone supposed to quaver and
wobble? Is there a full wobble and also a partial wobble?

klezmer is a good illustration of tone flexibility.

Flexibility does not absolve us from trying to define or understand each
particular tone. But I think that Tony's point that a competent
clarinetist cannot be described as having a single tone has been
overlooked while we search for words to deal with tone.

....I just wanted to say this.

Cheers,
Bill

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