Author: seabreeze
Date: 2017-08-03 01:56
David,
What I take away from your excellent performance of the Mendelssohn is how well pro clarinetists can blend and play in tune even when using different equipment and not much altering their personal sounds. Whight sounded fine on his (non-Backun) blackwood clarinet, metal ligature, and non-Backun mouthpiece producing his own sonority, and you sounded fine on your cocobolo(?) Backun, MoBa mouthpiece, and high-end Silverstein ligature producing yours. He didn't have to run out and buy your set-up to match your tone, and you didn't have to buy his. In fact, I think the performance gained in musical interest by the subtly different coloration of each clarinet sound and would have been duller had you both used identical equipment and struggled to produce identical sounds.
By the way, what was Michael Whight's set up?
Post Edited (2017-08-03 01:56)
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