Klarinet Archive - Posting 000696.txt from 2003/06

From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?ferengiz=E2de_dani=EAl_shawqy?= <rab@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] Vibrato on the Clarinet
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 06:57:32 -0400

Thanks for your reply,
----- Original Message -----
From: Brash, Alexander
Subject: RE: [kl] Vibrato on the Clarinet

Please prove to me it sounds far better. See Mr. Cohler's article for some
discussion of his own experiments with non musicians, and asking them which
tone quality they prefer. Let me see something similar from you.

I don't think music should be judged by laypeople. I started on Closé system
and being surrounded by Oehler adepts I just had the choice and I found the
German instruments (by the supreme makers) simply better, more elegant and
subtle and certainly more apt to the kind of "grave" sound required for the
German 19th c. repertoire. I even play Jazz (not exactly German music...) on
my German horns, though not with a German mouthpiece (but an American, Ch.
Bay). I don't give a ++++ what non musicians think a clarinet should sound
like. They might pick a Casio keyboard.
Best wishes,
danyel
ps. don't get me wrong, I am NOT a partisan of all the lousy players in
Germany!!!

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