Klarinet Archive - Posting 000986.txt from 2004/10

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Doubling
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 18:43:31 -0500

I don't see how it can be that simple. Sounding like a sax in Hary Janos or
Lt. Kije must certainly be different from sounding like a sax in a big band
or in a cocktail trio. For that matter, "sounding like a clarinet" is too
style- and context-dependent to make so binary a distinction reasonable.

Karl Krelove

> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Blumberg [mailto:FilmPromotion@-----.net]
> Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 5:39 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Doubling
>
>
> Clarinetists who play Sax and use the same embouchure and wind speed
> for both almost always sound like Clarinet players trying to play the
> Saxophone.
>
> There is a difference. The goal is to sound like a Sax player when
> playing the Sax and a Clarinetist when playing the Clarinet.
>
> David Blumberg
>
>
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> Adam Michlin <amichlin@-----.com>
> Subject: Re: [kl] Doubling
> Message-id: <5.1.0.14.2.20041031101446.010c7020@-----.com>
>
> Tony,
>
> You should take another look at the original document I referenced. I
> was
> not referring to the subtle differences which Forest describes. I was
> referring to drastically different fundamental approaches to
> embouchure.
>
> You are arguing extremely subtle shades of white and I am talking
> about
> black and white.
>
> -Adam
>
> I would say arguing about these subtle differences is somewhat like
> arguing
> the difference from snow flake to snow flake while someone hits you
> upside
> the head with a snowball.
>
> At 03:07 PM 10/31/2004 +0000, tony-w@-----.uk wrote:
> > > My perception about embouchure from one instrument to another, is
> > > that my embouchure feels the same. It may differ to some
> degree...but
> > > only in small subtle ways. Ways so subtle that I don't notice them
> any
> > > longer when I change instruments.
> >
> >Well respectfully, I rest my case. When we are leaping from one
> instrument
> >to another, we don`t notice or use major differences, we just do it.
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