Klarinet Archive - Posting 000239.txt from 2004/05

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: sound--character ([kl] Walterh Grabner New Mouthpiece)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 19:37:34 -0400

Daniel wrote:

> 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 clarinets are much
> closer to the "real" clarinet sound than
> anything made today and, again, I can't
> conceal the fact that I often don't even
> recognise as a clarinet when I hear people on
> Boehm system instruments. Sounds so alien.

Thanks for the reply, Daniel. All I can say is that, in my opinion,
"real" is the wrong word to use because it implies something negative
about every other instrument in the world. You could just as easily
say that there is (or has been) only one "real" clarinetist in the world
because every other clarinetist is not identical to him/her.

The sound you enjoy the most, or the instrument that plays most easily
for you, is a different story, of course; but even here, I wonder if you
could identify each of your instruments by their sounds alone if you
were blindfolded? (That should be a rhetorical question, I suppose.)

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