Klarinet Archive - Posting 000207.txt from 2005/03

From: Ed Wojtowicz <ewoj@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] German sound
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 11:35:58 -0500

Dan-

To clarify your point- I understand that the country of birth or
residence of a player will not define the sound that is made on the
clarinet. Are you saying that the various design differences that were
prevalent over the years and their characteristic differences in bore,
significant difference in mouthpiece facing style and reed type (for
example a Wurlitzer clarinet with a typical close/long facing and
german reed, large bore Boosey and Hawkes 1010, Buffet clarinet, all
with characteristic set ups) would produce precisely the same tone
quality?

Ed

On Mar 4, 2005, at 4:56 PM, dnleeson wrote:

> And for what it is
> worth, I think she has a lovely, captivating, exquisite sound,
> and is a player of great substance, but her sound is no more
> German than it is Bulgarian, Hungarian, or Serbo Croatian. The
> whole purpose of the exercise that we just went through was to
> suggest that national boundaries do not define clarinet sound
> character. People define clarinet sound character.)
>
> Dan Leeson
> DNLeeson@-----.net

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