Klarinet Archive - Posting 000267.txt from 2006/04

From: "Bob and Deborah Shaw" <theshaws10@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Buffet Festivals
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 07:14:19 -0400

I totally agree. But when you are looking for a new horn, it doesn't hurt
to know the characteristics of the instrutment, or other players experiences
on it.

I played on a Selmer for many years because that is what my mother bought
for me. But in college, I had a wonderful tone, and pitch. All of the rest
of the clarinet players who played Buffet marveled ;) at the tone that I
would get on that instrument (lol).

Just to let everyone know-I am play testing a Festival right now and my
husband said that tone is really big and full. It definately projects!

Deborah

-----Original Message-----
From: Tski1128@-----.com]
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 7:23 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Re: Buffet Festivals

There are a lot of people that will say things like "you won't hear it in
the orchestra, or this brand of clarinet can't project in a hall". Be
careful
who you listen to. Most people that offer this advice have never heard
strings
up close and haven't ever been to a hall. Experience has taught me that a
good player can make just about any kind of sound on just about any
instrument. We spend too much time discussing equipment and not enough time
discussing
music. In the end, all the stuff we obsess about: mouthpieces;reeds; bell,
barrels and undercutting only serve to make playing easier. Who knows what
kind
of paint brush VanGough used? Who cares!

Tom Puwalski, former soloist with the US Army Field Band, Clarinetist with
Lox&Vodka, and Author of "The Clarinetist's Guide to Klezmer"and most
recently by the order of the wizard of Oz, for supreme intelligence, a
Masters in
Clarinet performance

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