Klarinet Archive - Posting 000401.txt from 2005/03

From: "rien stein" <rstein@-----.nl>
Subj: [kl] THE TEST
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 19:33:17 -0500

Dan, can you include me too in the test? I wonder how many I will have
wrong -- I always thought Gervais de Peyer to be a Frenchman, until recently
I learned he is English!

But then again: in the Dutch radio I often listen to a program in which
recordings of a piece are criticized by a panel, usually without them
knowing which soloist or orchestra they are hearing. I often wonder how well
they can pin down orchestras to a certain country, based on the "sharpness"
(sorry, Dan) of the sound of the winds (USA orchestras), or whatever they
mention to give a base to why they think the orchestra is "Austrian, but not
the Vienna Symphony" or whatever it be. Usually they are right.

But the people in the panel are professionals, they are singers or
conductors or ... by profession. Maybe the test would say more if
professional musicians would take it, but then again, you would have to
fullfill a number of extra preconditions like making sure the panel will not
recognize the clarinettist playing, and so on. I am sure most amateurs have
a hearing that is not good or not well-trained enough to make such fine
distinctions!

Nonetheless: let's make the trial.

Ciao

Rien

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