Klarinet Archive - Posting 000110.txt from 2003/04

From: "Age E.Smies" <asmies@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinet Sound
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:30:47 -0400

That makes sense as the various registers of the clarinet sound different.
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From: "Keith" <100012.1302@-----.com>
Subject: [kl] Clarinet Sound

>
> I would support Dan and even go further. When I was very young I learned
> on a simple or Albert system clarinet. When I changed to a Boehm, at age
> about 13, almost the first thing I noticed was that the timbre of the C
> above the stave was nothing like so good (and I think this is still true
> of modern instruments), and it sounded slightly different. And even
> more, a written C on the Bb sounds different from the C# on the A and
> the A above the stave on the Eb even though they are all the same pitch.
> Or again, the opening of K622: written G-E on the A sounds different
> from F#-Eb on the Bb. If one does harmonic analysis of course this is
> easy to see, but more important it can be heard, especially if there is
> a register change for one of the instruments.
>
> Keith Bowen
>
>
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> Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 14:27:00 -0800
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
> Subject: Re: [kl] Clarinet sound
> Message-ID: <3E8CB534.8080904@-----.net>
>
> 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
>
> Ed Wojtowicz wrote:
> > There is no difference in the sound of clarinets- By transposing you
> > can play the same pitches and avoid switching clarinets.
> >
> > Ed
> >
>
>
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