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Re: What does "blown out" mean?

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2009-02-13 01:31

At a certain level, you're probably right. But in my experience, most of the time for most players it's almost always #4 in your list, occasionally #5 (wanderlust). The "someone" in #4 is usually a major symphony player (or someone who studied with one) who truly believes in "blow out" and who plays hours every day and is under intense pressure to sound beyond good all the time. When more casual players hear or read that Marcellus or Gigliotti replaced their instruments on a regular basis because they felt an instrument is blown out after 5 years (of very heavy, constant use), then it becomes a "known fact" that blow-out happens. Whether or not something was really going tangibly wrong with Marcellus's clarinets, most of us don't put those demands on our instruments (or mouthpieces).

It's a little late in this thread to be asking this, but (to those reading this thread east of the Atlantic) does "blow out" have widespread currency among European clarinetists? I've really only heard American clarinetists talk about it, but that may be because they've constituted most of my exposure.

Karl

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