Author: Ray
Date: 2003-03-14 17:16
"As my teacher tells me, it is not the "size" of the sound that matters, but the projection."
With apologies to all:
What do you hear when you listen to music from too far away? You hear the high stuff: piccolo, oboe, xylophone, etc. You don't hear the bass clarinet or the soprano clarinet playing in the chalameau. Carrying power or "projection" seems to require high frequencies of sound.
So, "projection" in clarinet sound requires brightness, the antithesis of what American clarinetists strive for. We want to be "dark".
Whenever I listen to professionally recorded music I try to decide if the clarinet sound is bright or dark. Most of the time I decide it tends toward bright, especially in an orchestral setting.
How can we project and be dark at the same time?
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