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Author: Keil
Date: 2001-03-19 00:40
is it possible to get a "german" dark tone on a french clarinet?
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2001-03-19 00:53
Three ideas:
1)Selmer Signature clarinet;
2)Anguled wall mouthpiece such as by Greg Smith(He makes both
parallel and angled wall mouthpieces).
3)Reformed Boehm systems of Wuritzer or Ottomar Hammerschidt.
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2001-03-19 15:16
Keil -
You can get practically any tone out of any decent setup. It involves listening hard and having what you want "in your ear." A German instrument, mouthpiece and reed certainly make it easier to get a "German" sound, but they're not essential. I turned on my car radio a couple of years ago in the middle of a Wagner excerpt. At a clarinet solo, I said to myself "That has to be a German instrument player -- no French instrument could sound like that." It was the Cleveland Orchestra, with Marcellus, playing a Buffet, sounding completely "German."
It's not enough to have a "good tone." You must learn to make many good tones and be able to use each one where it's needed.
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Christoffer
Date: 2001-03-19 21:13
I like playing balkan folk music, and my favourite players in that field almost inevitably play albert system clarinets. They have a very special sound indeed ... but my experience is, if I've been listening to that music for a while and then pick up my plastic boehm system Yamaha, I automatically produce a pretty "albertish" tone - while my tone is much more "classical" and "french", when I come from a lesson with my classically trained teacher and his Buffet.
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