Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2019-11-27 22:14
ACCA wrote:
> Surely the part of the equipment having the greatest impact on
> the sound/style would be the mouthpiece and reed. I can't
> imagine that being stipulated as this is so individual.
I guess the point is that, whether or not you can imagine it or I find the importance of using the same instruments compelling, it is the case in some sections of some major orchestras that the principal player insists that the players in his section play what he or she is using.
I don't think that American orchestras have any such contractual requirement or that any principal player in the American orchestras I know anything about can (again contractually) force the dismissal of a section member contingent on a particular choice of instrument. And in the cases in big orchestras of co-principals or principal/associate-principal they rarely if ever even play together.
IMO and experience, playing style depends much more on what result the player wants than on the equipment the player uses to produce it. The second player has to be able to complement the principal's approach when they're exposed together, but that can be done without buying the same setup, and (as someone else has already said) even that doesn't guarantee matching tone (and has nothing to do with matching articulation styles, rhythmic precision or tuning). So, IMO, a principal's pressuring section mates to buy equipment that matches his own is misguided (I'm assuming that the principal isn't getting any kind of sales commission or other kick-back from the manufacturer, which I think would be reprehensible).
Karl
Post Edited (2019-11-27 22:57)
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