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Author: Napat Techa.
Date: 2017-05-28 18:00
What is "the ring" and "the ping" ???
And...
How to get more ring and ping ???
Sorry for my bad english...
...Sorry for my bad English...
Thank you !!!!!
Intermediate clarinetist . Buffet Crampon RC . Nick Solist M Mouthpiece. V12 3.5. Ishimori gold plated ligature and Rovner Versa ligature.
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Author: ClarinetRobt
Date: 2017-05-28 19:18
The Bboard could spend the next year talking about this. Clarinet sound ranges from bright (French) to dark (German) schools of thought. (I'm way over simplying). There seems to be an endless pursuit for dark sounds. Again I'm over generalizing. For me, the problem with a tone too dark is there is a dullness to the quality. Cutting through a wall of instruments (whether trumpets or violins) is virtually impossible in large ensembles with a dark clarinet tone.
Bringing a ping/ring to your sound is adding overtones to your core sound. For me, switching a Rod Rubber mouthpiece did wonders to my sound. Others will have solid advise on how to achieve a livier sound. But not edgy, thin in quality.
Keep in mind terms like dark, warm, ping, bright, thin, etc are very subjective. What it means to me could be quite different to you. For example, I would consider Marcellus to have warm sound, but with a ton of color. I love hearing a dark clarinet sound in chamber / solo stuff. In reality, it could get lost within the other instruments. Note, all of my oboe/flute friends seem to be seeking brighter sounds. A dark clarinet could be covered up pretty easily.
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Author: kdk
Date: 2017-05-28 22:27
Another problem is that what you hear and what a listener hears are different and the difference can change as the distance increases.
One of the ringiest sounding players I heard regularly (until his retirement and recent death) was Donald Montanaro of the Philadelphia Orchestra. His tone, when I heard him up close, was not especially lively, but from the audience at the Academy of Music or Verizon Hall in Philadelphia, the ring was so audible it was almost separate from the tone. Gigliotti was somewhat the same, although the ring, while there, was less prominent when I heard him from the audience seats.
So, sometimes you can't tell how much ring you're producing and may need to enlist someone else's ears to help. Maybe you already have more than you think.
Karl
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