Author: kdrew922
Date: 2007-12-20 19:54
These last two posts merely illustrate the extreme subjectivity of tone. What one person loves, another will hate, and vice versa. For this reason it is a serious mistake to sacrifice response/pitch/range/dynamics for tone when making reeds. We can all agree that it is a good thing to play in tune, to be able to make the sound begin and end just when you want, to play effortlessly in the lowest and highest registers, to play with an expansive dynamic range... but we will never agree on what makes a tone beautiful. When it comes to tone, it is best if we each pursue what we prefer, and we can simply agree to disagree, without claiming that this or that player's tone is "bad." Pablo Casals probably had precisely the tone he wanted, whether we love it or hate it. But if he had sacrificed control for tone, today we'd be saying, "Pablo who?"
Cheers,
Drew
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