Klarinet Archive - Posting 000103.txt from 2003/04

From: "Matthew Lloyd" <Matthew@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] Clarinet sound
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:30:40 -0400

I'm with Dan on this one. No Bb can ever play like an Eb. And that is
before you add it C & D (neither of which I have had experience of) or A

Matthew

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Leeson [mailto:leeson0@-----.net]
Subject: Re: [kl] Clarinet sound

Sorry Ed, but flip response just won't do. Your positing on this matter

was much more broad than B-f;at to A transpositions. You explicitly
included D clarinet, E-flat, etc. It was such a bizarre statement, that

I asked for clarification, and that was because I couldn't believe that
any thinking musician and practicing clarinetist could consider the
matter in such a wrongheaded way about an important aspect of clarinet
playing. In effect, you said "only pitch is important to be preserved"
and you did not quality that statement by suggesting you excluded both
character and register.

Now you come back and suggest that your comment was only designed to
cover the pitch differences between B-flat to A transposition (and which

is as wrongheaded as any of the others your original not suggested).

A half-step difference between clarinets is not so irrelevant that it,
too, can fall into the realm of "it doesn't matter," as you originally
stated.

Frankly, I am shocked that a mature, professional player can come out of

the pipeline with the suggestion you gave about the irrelevancy of
various clarinet types.

Ed Wojtowicz wrote:
> Yeah, but since it has been asserted here before that materials don't
> matter, German clarinets despite the difference in dimensions, have no
> difference in timbre (or so I've been told) etc, etc, I figure that
the
> difference from A to Bb is minimal. Hey, what is a half step among
friends?
>
> ;-)
>
> Ed
>
>
>>From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
>>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>>Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 14:27:00 -0800
>>To: klarinet@-----.org
>>Subject: Re: [kl] Clarinet sound
>>
>>Ed, thank you for your response, but it is clear to me that we have no
>>basis of communication if, as your note indicates, you consider only
the
>>pitch of a note as the required element in performance. In effect,
the
>>character and register of the needed sound appears to hold no
importance
>>to you.
>>
>>I heard a performance of a Mahler symphony done without E-flat
clarinets
>>because the management did not want to pay the extra money. The
results
>>were that all of the pitches were heard on B-flat clarinets -- many in
>>the wrong register -- but none of the instrumenal character was
>>retained. The performance was awful at those moments when the needed
>>clarinet was not used.
>>
>>What you propose is fundamentally unmusical.
>>
>>Dan
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