Klarinet Archive - Posting 000048.txt from 2005/03

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Germansound Boehmclarinets
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 17:30:18 -0500

David, I do not disagree with you. There are indeed different
schools of clarinet playing, but calling an instrument a
Germansound clarinet implies that the player is not responsible
for the sound (which would be very much influenced by his or her
attendance at schooling associated with that culture), but rather
the clarinet itself. IT is the source of the sound, and that
sound character, uninfluenced by the school or the culture, is
derived from some mechanical aspect of the instrument's creation.

It's not only an inherently unmusical idea, it is an irrational
one that leads to absurd contradicitions; i.e., a
WestCoastclarinetsound is made in Los Angeles, and an
EastCoastclarinetsound is made in New York. And God forbid a
player from the east should show up to take an audition in the
west. I admit the idea is preposterous but that is where the
idea of an instrument carrying an inherent sound leads one.

Those different schools of clarinet playing are culturally
derived, and depend on the educational system, the teachers, the
students, and goodness knows what else.

And if wood from trees is chopped down in Africa, with some of it
shipped to Germany, and some of it shipped to France, is the
manufacturing process going to create a distinctive cultural
sound? It boggles the imagination, it is so foreign to
intelligent thinking. It just shows you what clarinetists will
swallow in terms of advertising without shooting the putz who
invented such a bad idea.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: David Blumberg [mailto:blummy@-----.net]
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 11:44 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] Germansound Boehmclarinets

Like it or not Dan, there ARE different schools of Clarinet
playing and
there are also regions of Clarinetists which differ in sound
(though there
has been quite a mixing of the above). So the poster was most
likely
reffering to "dark" and possibly not quite as focused a tone as
the
"non-german" sounding clarinet.

btw - before you ask, "Dark" is less high frequencies dominating
in the
sound.

I'll post this in this thread to save downloading another
message:

Guys, stop ridding Tony and Dan's butts. I for one am very glad
to see them
post on this list and they are quite helpful almost every post
that they
make.
If Tony has an occasional "listen kid, I know my stuff" than he
has it
coming as he has the experience to "walk the talk".

David Blumberg
http://www.mytempo.com

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dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subject: RE: [kl] Germansound Boehmclarinets
Message-ID: <FJEKIMDEOJFJPBKBMDOPIEEPDDAA.dnleeson@-----.net>

What does a German sounding clarinet sound like, and how does
this differ from a non-German sounding clarinet?

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net
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