Klarinet Archive - Posting 000613.txt from 2002/11

From: "Christy Erickson" <perickso@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Dark Sound - Famous Players
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:57:21 -0500

If it does involve never brushing your teeth, I'll never tell my son.
He has enough excuses for never brushing his teeth already. I did once
have two clarinet students whom I met at a music studio for the first
time by hearing them play through the practice room door. I would have
sworn on a stack of bibles there were two saxophone players in that
room. To my utter amazement, they were truly both playing clarinets.
It seems their band teacher was a saxophone player and would play his
saxophone along with them in their school lessons. The soft reeds they
had made it possible to get that sound and it was God awful!
Christy Erickson

Audrey said,

>
>" Dan
> Would you please give us a *precise* definition of what a *dirty*
sound
> is? How do I achieve it? How do I accurately describe it to my
> students (in words) so they can recognize it and move away from it?
> Does it involve never brushing my teeth? :)
>
>
> Daniel Leeson wrote:
> >
> > Ed Hall had the worst, ugliest, dirtiest sound I ever heard and
> > he was a great jazz player, though sometimes it was hard to believe
that
> > he was playing a clarinet. That's how uncharacteristic it was, even
> > though no one really cared that much how ugly his sound was.
> >
> > --
> > ***************************
> > **Dan Leeson **
> > **leeson0@-----.net **
> > ***************************
> >
> >
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