Klarinet Archive - Posting 000123.txt from 2004/05

From: "David Glenn" <maestrodavidglenn@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Vibrato in Nature?
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 17:39:56 -0400


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DATE: Thu, 06 May 2004 10:15:38
From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
To: klarinet@-----.org
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>Apart from man-made sounds, I was unable to think of an example of vibrato in
>any animal or bird cry -- apart perhaps from the whinny of a horse.
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>Does anyone know of any other example? Some exotic bird perhaps?
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>Tony
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Nature is vibrato!
It's just that in natur, Everything is in movement, be it slower or faster. And there are as good as no straight lines. I can think of no (individual) "sustained tones" in nature. It sounds equally unnatural to sustain a note in music. It sounds like a desert looks but then without dunes, rocks, oases. It just doesn't make sense.

But since you ask, a sheep makes a kind of stottering vibrato not unlike a horse. Or would that be frullato?

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