Author: TomS
Date: 2019-10-25 18:12
Attempts to get that "nice, dark sound" (IMHO, that can't be heard past your section neighbors) usually results in "dead, uninteresting sound". One way to do this is wide rails, especially the tip rail ... and this often slows the response down. No free lunch ... it's a balance of compromises. I once asked Charles Bay "how to you get a "dark" sounding MP" ... and his reply was "wide tip rail ... but if you overdo it, the response suffers" ... You have to play louder/work harder to compensate for the quantity and weighting of the overtones that are less abundant with the "nice, dark sound" ...
One of my (now deceased) teachers came back from the UK playing a Vandoren A2 crystal and Vandoren German cut reeds. It worked, but you had to perfectly center the reed. And, he got a beautiful, haunting, wailing, centered sound with this setup ... when he tried out for the local symphony, the conductor told him: "Okay Paul, you can play principal, but I want for you to darken your tone". Well, it took him a while to "fix" this ... I think he was hoping that the conductor would get used to his sound. .
Tom
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