Klarinet Archive - Posting 000112.txt from 2007/03

From: Martin Baxter <martinbaxter@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bright and dark sounds
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:22:53 -0500

Dan
This matter does seem worth further discussion.
I have always believed that by slight variations in embouchure I can
alter the sound I make; ignoring the variations given by different
reed/m'piece combinations. Do you not consider this is so? If it is
so; and others seem to hear me doing it, what actually is happening?
Martin

On 8 Mar 2007, at 00:52, dnleeson wrote:

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> Tim, it seems to me that you have neglected an important aspect
> of this issue, namely this: what does a player do to exercise
> control over the proportion of the frequencies that create either
> bright sounds or dark sounds? How does the mechanism work? A
> student says, "I want to have a dark sound. What do I have to do
> to get one?" And the answer cannot be, "change the proportion of
> the frequencies you produce and the sound will be dark." That is
> neither comprehensible nor meaningful nor do-able. It is
> witchcraft used to achieve an end that is entirely unclear.
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> I perceive that you are using a scientific method to describe
> sound characters, but with no idea of how one achieves those
> given popular but meaningless names of dark and bright.
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> Dan Leeson
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