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Author: wjk
Date: 2003-12-21 17:27
I've noticed that my R-13 with a B45 mouthpiece. optimum ligature, and gonzalez 2 3/4 reeds doesn't quite achieve the "Brahms tone" I'd like. Would my closer Ramon Wodkoski mouthpiece with a harder reed do "better"? Thanks!
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Author: Liquorice
Date: 2003-12-22 00:25
It's impossible for us to know what you mean by "Brahms tone". Try your other mouthpiece and listen for yourself. Only you can answer your own question!
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Author: wjk
Date: 2003-12-22 00:27
I admire Karl Leister's tone on this piece.
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Author: stickpoet
Date: 2003-12-22 01:22
yo, wjk...
ya should've said
you wanna mimic Leister guy's
cool sound,
not the Richard Muehfeld's sound
with lah~da vibrato,
during the erah
when the ree~~ly short-stautured Brahm's guy
was huffing and puffing, ya know?
sumtimes ah wonder what the Muefeld dude
sounded like, lah~da moons ago
did he use thin reeds or thick ones ?
those who know eveythin' out there...
dus anyone kno'?
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Author: theclarinetist
Date: 2003-12-22 01:40
Which mouthpiece might one use to get a Stoltzman tone on Brahms?
;)
Don Hite
theclarinetist@yahoo.com
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Author: Liquorice
Date: 2003-12-22 12:50
As far as I know, Karl Leister uses a relatively closed, long facing mouthpiece, with quite soft reeds. He plays German system instruments. But if you gave him an open, short facing mouthpiece with hard reeds and a plastic Boehm clarient, he'd probably still sound great!
To achieve that special Stolzman tone for Brahms, use the stock Buffet mouthpiece, and play with the reed on the upper lip ;-)
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2003-12-22 14:10
Nyuck nyuck, liquorice.
Muhlfeld lived until 1907, so he could have made a cylinder or disk. However, Michael Bryant, who knows more than the rest of us combined, has followed every rumor and says there just aren't any.
The story about Muhlfeld playing with a "big vibrato" comes from Jack Brymer, who said he heard it from an ancient violist who claimed to have played with Muhlfeld. Without better confirmation, I'm 50/50 about believing it.
Richard Stoltzman plays a medium length, medium open Opperman mouthpiece, with medium strength, handmade reeds.
Muhlfeld played instruments that were basically German, but with an idiosyncratic key system. Keith Puddy restored one of his Bb instruments and recorded the Brahms Sonatas on them. His tone was, of course, his own, but was also "Germanic," by which I mean it had a creamy, slightly covered quality, like Leister or Alfred Boskovsky. That's the quality I try for, particularly when playing the Brahms Quintet or Trio, which are for A clarinet.
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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