Klarinet Archive - Posting 000030.txt from 2008/01

From: "danyel" <rab@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] "loud" dynamics in clarinet playing
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:00:43 -0500

Hi Danny,

My reply to the current mouthpiece thread deals with this very question. I
have no problems playing with brass and I am sure that people like Barney
Bigard or Jimmy Noone had enough volume without amps. In those days the
drums where much softer (thinner cymbals, better playing) and pianos etc.
were not miked, so the winds would play a bit more relaxed...
Yet a good Jazz-mouthpiece is incomparably louder than a good classical one,
preferably but rarely without being any shriller. Certainly you can't play
as soft. Tony Scot and his ilk sacrificed, imho, the clarinet sound by using
SHORT open lays with small chamber mp's.

Best,
danyel
www.echoton.de/clar.html

----- Original Message -----
From: <dbittker@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 12:31 AM
Subject: [kl] "loud" dynamics in clarinet playing

> Perhaps some of the "elders" among this group could help with this
> question. I've often assumed that the greats of the swing period of
> clarinet playing,(when Shaw, Goodman, etc. were the "stars") had the
> ability to be heard over a full band of saxes, trumpets, trombones, etc.
> with a minimum or sometimes absence of microphones. I'm not old enough to
> have heard them, but have suspected that they had "powerful" sounds that
> carried well in large theaters and dance halls. Any feedback on this? (I
> never heard Tony Scott live either, but have heard his sound described by
> many clarinetists as being the "loudest" clarinet player around.) But
> specifically, what about Shaw, Goodman, Woody Herman, and the others, when
> the clarinet was the featured instrument? Any comments? Thanks, Danny
> Bittke
>
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