Klarinet Archive - Posting 000050.txt from 2003/12

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: RE: [kl] Selmer C clarinet
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 02:50:22 -0500

Bill=A0Hausmann wrote (to Nancy Buckman):

> I can only assume that your ears are
> searching for that upper partial energy or
> whatever that I find stronger in Buffets than
> Selmers. Thus, what I hear as direct and dark
> you find thin and whiney. Or maybe your
> mouthpiece does not match Selmers well?

This discussion may be complicated by *anatomical* differences bteween
Bill and Nancy --- as well as by perception and/or mouthpiece
differences.

The player's body is certainly a major (as opposed to trivial) part of
the system. Logically speaking, Nancy and Bill may have different lung
volumes or mouth shapes or throat diameters or diaphragm tensions or
whatever, and therefore it may be impossible for them to produce
identical waveforms with the same clarinet even if they had total
control of every aspect of their musculature.

I imagine that differences in technique & perception are more likely to
be the cause, but....

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