Klarinet Archive - Posting 000741.txt from 2004/08

From: Audrey Travis <vsofan@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: setups equipment
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 20:21:38 -0400


"D. Blumberg" wrote:

> It's a completely different style of reed-setup. Same was for me and
> Bill Jenkin (Baltimore Sym/former Vancouver Sym and a student of Wes
> if I remembered correctly) when at the Scotia Festival we tried each
> other's equipment. His was like playing on a brick to me and mine was
> like playing on a #2 to him. Yet both of us sounded really good, and
> had that "dark sound" that is sought after typically.

If I remember Bill's sound from the time he spent here in Vancouver, it
was both big AND gorgeous. We (I) miss him here in Vancouver. Of
course, my favourite clarinet sound of all time is Wes Foster's.

Audrey

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