Klarinet Archive - Posting 000796.txt from 2002/11

From: "WILLIAM SEMPLE" <wsemple@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Centred tone
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 00:00:24 -0500

Tony's suggestion makes sense. A laborious process. But we could take a
clarinetist we have all heard, say Pete Fountain, and ask the list to
describe HIS sound. Or Karl Leister. Start somewhere with a common frame of
reference.

Recordings are not as good as a live performance, but Pete Fountain sounds
like Pete Fountain no matter what recording I have. The problem would occur
when the differences are more subtle.

I think we can start with BIG differences, and work on the subtlties later.

>From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] Centred tone
>Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 22:09:56 GMT
>
>On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 21:54:39 +0000, johnd@-----.com said:
>
> > So it looks like describing someone's tone in words is ultimately
> > futile, although I wouldn't condemn anyone for trying. This seems a
> > shame, because undoubtedly there are many variations in the sound
> > produced by different players, but we lack the verbal tools to discuss
> > them.
>
>Well, I don't know. I don't think you try hard enough, if that's what
>you all want to do.
>
>Why don't you pick some *one* passage in some *one* recording that
>everyone has access to -- and choose even *one note* in that to talk
>about? You might get closer to a language, if not a consensus.
>
>I know that different reproduction devices will interfere with such a
>comparison, but perhaps you'd get closer than statements like "many
>Eastern European....whilst some English....." will allow you.
>
>I myself think that attempting to have, yourself, a variety of sounds
>that will allow the change between them to be expressive is what's
>mostly important.
>
>But I still think you could do better if you want to do what you say you
>want to do.
>
>Tony
>--
>_________ Tony Pay
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>
>... I work 40 hours a week to be this poor.
>
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