Klarinet Archive - Posting 000060.txt from 2009/02

From: Jonathan Cohler <cohler@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Brahms quintet
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:10:21 -0500

At 5:53 PM +0000 2/3/09, Tony Pay wrote:
>This is an ill-considered, parochial judgement. Actually, F# minor and D
>major on the Ottensteiner instrument that M=FChlfeld used involve 'simpler'
>fingerings, in the sense of your 'obvious' physics, than do F minor and Db
>major.

I said nothing about the "simplicity" of the=20
fingerings. I said they were smoother, more in=20
tune, more resonant etc. as a whole (not one=20
particular note but the entire passage).

The physics of this is rather obvious and too boring to get into.

But if you propose that my statement is untrue,=20
then why do you suppose M=FChlfeld played it that=20
way? Did he want it to be less in tune, less=20
resonant, and less smooth?

:-)

--
Jonathan Cohler
Artistic & General Director
International Woodwind Festival
http://iwwf.org/
cohler@-----.org

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