Klarinet Archive - Posting 000811.txt from 2002/11

From: "WILLIAM SEMPLE" <wsemple@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Centred tone
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 00:00:39 -0500

I know what I hear, too. What's the purpose of this listserve, but to
communicate about the clarinet and related reed instruments. If "sound" is
not one of the elemental subject matters, I don't know what is.

What you are saying is that the quality of the clarinet tone is so personal
that it belies "useful" definition. Lo since Adam and Eve, we have come to
accept the utility of the word "love," as personal and undefinable an
emotion that there is.

I believe most of us seeking clarity on these words wish to establish a
basis for using them, if only to understand how to categorize various sounds
other than using "pleasant" or "unpleasant." It is not persuasive to me that
because qualitative adjectives elude scientific certitude that they are
useless. This conclusion would require that by the any reasonable linguistic
standard, we eliminate all of the words we use to describe anything that
involves personal feelings or sensations.

The narrow approach of Tony's doesn't make sense to me. Let's start with a
sound everyone has heard, and see what we get.

Tony -- Pete Fountain plays principal in the London Symphony Orchestra.
:)

>From: AnneLenoir@-----.net (Anne Lenoir)
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] Centred tone
>Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 19:39:30 -0700 (MST)
>
>Tony, I don't need to talk about it. I know exactly what I am hearing,
>and I am happy without words. ANNIE
>
>
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