Klarinet Archive - Posting 000017.txt from 2003/12

From: GrabnerWG@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] The season to kill bad ideas
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 12:06:10 -0500

In a message dated 12/24/2003 10:42:34 AM Eastern Standard Time, kwolman@-----.com writes:

> He attached his own barrel and mouthpiece and played for a few minutes. It sounded great: a hell of a lot better than me playing the same instrument. Big surprise. But as to whether it's my ear or some infinitesimal difference in construction or workmanship, which pieces of the tree Buffet and Selmer used, in fact I could not really hear any discernible difference between
what he sounded like on my old Selmer and how he sounded on his Buffet.>>

No surprise here at all. His reed, his mouthpiece, his barrel, his embouchure, his tonal concept,his lips, throat, oral cavity, etc. All these things influence the tone far more than the "tubing that changes the pitches", meaning the rest of the clarinet.

Walter Grabner
www.clarinetxpress.com
clarinet mouthpieces and more

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