Klarinet Archive - Posting 000109.txt from 2009/02

From: "Alexander Brash" <brash@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Brahms quintet
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:09:08 -0500

>> Are you seriously suggesting he changed clarinets to switch reeds as the
>> primary motivating factor in switching to the B-flat????????
>
> Yes.

Nothing else needs to be said here.

On Thu, February 5, 2009 1:08 pm, Tony Pay wrote:
> On 5 Feb, Jonathan Cohler <cohler@-----.org> wrote:
>
>> Are you seriously suggesting he changed clarinets to switch reeds as the
>> primary motivating factor in switching to the B-flat????????
>
> Yes.
>
> The mystery to be explained is why, given that the passage 'lies' more
> easily
> and naturally on the A rather than the Bb Ottensteiner, Mühlfeld
> nevertheless
> switched.
>
> I thought about it a lot in the 2000 thread, and eventually came to the
> conclusion, as a player of both Ottensteiner and Boehm instruments, that
> that
> was the most plausible explanation.
>
> Of course, modern players may well make a different choice. In fact, I'm
> concerned to ALLOW them that choice, rather than make spurious arguments
> as
> to what they SHOULD do. (I'm against 'shoulds', as other contributors
> here
> will tell you.)
>
> So you see that my whole beef with you is to do with what I see as a
> misuse
> of science in this argument.
>
> Still, you're obviously scientifically literate; you might like to explain
> to
> your little friend on the list why 'power' (dimensions M(L^2)T^(-3)),
> although not subtle enough to capture the situation entirely, isn't an
> entirely inappropriate quantity to be looking to be able to increase in
> 'sempre crescendo'.
>
> Apropos the 'other' dispute, revisit the thread on the BBoard. As I said
> there, "I've never encountered such a wriggler."
>
> Tony
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