Klarinet Archive - Posting 000233.txt from 2004/05

From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?ferengiz=E2de_dani=EAl_shawqy?= <rab@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: sound--character ([kl] Walterh Grabner New Mouthpiece)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 19:11:11 -0400

Ormondtoby,
I have more then 20 clarinets, mostly old German models like Kruspe, F.G.
Uebel, F.A. Uebel, Moennig... an original J. Albert is rather exotic amongst
them. I have also played boehm earlier in my life, still keep a nice old
Boosey but don't play it any more. I am still searching for the real
clarinet sound and probably allways will. A good clarinet is essential (my
old F.A. Uebel and the Kruspes may come closest, an O. Hammerschmidt is
somewhat newer but also quite good) yet as I said, without perfect
mouthpiece (long facing!), reed and even reed-twine, no chance in hell. This
is a bit like in ancient Chinese aesthetics, were a certain calligrapher is
known to have drowned himself in a well after his favourite ink maker died.
Good ink was not merely black, it was supposed to have an allmost mysterious
quality. People were using ink 500 years old, made according to standards
long since forgotten by contemporary ink makers, who were still extremely
good as far as I am concerned. It seems important to retain the highest
possible criteria, even if they are hardly met with in everyday life. But
still I have no doubt, Muehlfeld's Ottensteiner clarinetts are much closer
to the "real" clarinet sound then anything made today and, again, I can't
conceil the fact that I often don't even recognise as a clarinet when I hear
people on Boehm system instruments. Sounds so alien. Some sound like two
different instruments, depending on whether they play chalumeau or clarino
registers. I have heard Boehm practicioners who, from the clarino alone, I
assumed it was a tarogato or Heckel-clarinet they where playing...
My best,
danyel

----- Original Message -----
From: Ormondtoby Montoya
To: klarinet@-----.org
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 2:49 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] Re: sound--character ([kl] Walterh Grabner New Mouthpiece)

ferengizâde daniêl shawqy wrote:

> the true clarinet sound

Daniel, I didn't understand part of your post. Which model of clarinet
is the "true clarinet sound"? Do all clarinet players produce the
"true clarinet sound" when they play on this particular model?

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