Klarinet Archive - Posting 000118.txt from 2005/03

From: Tom Flavel <tom@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] German sound
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:06:11 -0500

On 03/03/2005 09:57:41, dnleeson wrote:
> Well I have a problem up front. The characteristic sound of a
> wind instrument is almost entirely influenced by the instrument.
> That is why a clarinet sounds like a clarinet and not a tuba.

But yet you can coerce an instrument into approximating the sound of
another - to loosen up the embrochure and sound more like a sax (or
objectivley, to have more lower harmonics, and less higher ones? I'm not
sure exactly what causes the sound). Or, to make it sound like a
trumpet. This is, yes, an ability of the instrument, but the ability -
or potential - is influenced by the player? (This puts me in mind of
geneotypes being influenced by environmental factors to produce
phenotypes)

Am I right in thinking that clarinets are (or were) used to double for
trumpets?

I think I was told they used to have a "more trumpety" sound in general.
rephrase that using more objective terminology, if you wish; I dont have
the technical knowledge of tone required to express what I mean in terms
of the properties of the sound.

--
Tom

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