Klarinet Archive - Posting 000526.txt from 2002/11

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Is my taste in clarinet tone getting "darker" in my old
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:55:54 -0500

Anne Lenoir wrote:
> About a year or more ago, Clark Fobes sold me a beautiful mouthpiece
> that seems to help me produce a more "golden" tone than my Vandoren 5 RV
> Lyre. I am growing to appreciate that (I call it darker) quality more &
> more.

Annie dear, the very idea of calling a tone "golden" and "darker" in the
same sentence shows the futility of using colors to describe the sound
character of an instrument.

"GOLDEN" is what one might use as a metaphor for something so bright
that its sparkle and brilliance hurts the eyes. How is possible by any
stretch of the English languae for anyone to conclude that something
which is golden is, simultaneously, dark???

It is as if you had said, "He was full of life after he had been dead
for three years."

Cheez!!
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