The Clarinet BBoard
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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2022-10-18 04:03
Fuzzy may be speaking wisdom when he acknowledges that he cannot account for clarinet tone by applying a few often used labels. On the Ellington recording, I knew the player had to be Jimmy Hamilton and not Barney Bigard (wrongly identified in the notes.) But Hamilton's ID, though deeply recognized, was beyond the scope of analytical words like adjectives. Everything in the tone and style had Hamilton written all over it, not just a checklist of dark, bright, focused, etc. We probably perceive or sense the whole characteristic sound of Hamilton at an intuitive primitive, animal level with all elements combined, and further analysis is pointless or even disruptive. Attempts to compile a statistical index of players' timbre (+a lexicon of clarinet sounds?) with any fidelity to normal semantic distinctions just might produce a Babel of nonsense and irrelevance.
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Fuzzy |
2020-09-22 21:41 |
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Paul Aviles |
2020-09-22 21:54 |
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kdk |
2020-09-22 23:01 |
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Dan Shusta |
2020-09-22 23:48 |
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Tony Pay |
2020-09-23 15:10 |
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kdk |
2020-09-23 17:42 |
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gwlively |
2020-09-23 21:03 |
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gwlively |
2020-09-23 21:06 |
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Ed Palanker |
2020-09-24 16:50 |
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Nitram |
2020-09-24 17:52 |
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clarnibass |
2020-09-25 13:51 |
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Clarineat |
2020-10-03 00:13 |
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kdk |
2020-10-03 04:57 |
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Dan Shusta |
2020-10-03 11:32 |
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Clarineat |
2020-10-03 20:16 |
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kdk |
2020-10-03 21:30 |
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SebastianB |
2022-10-16 01:12 |
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Paul Aviles |
2022-10-16 06:57 |
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Bob Barnhart |
2022-10-16 08:56 |
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SebastianB |
2022-10-16 09:33 |
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kdk |
2022-10-16 21:05 |
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SecondTry |
2022-10-16 22:38 |
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graham |
2022-10-18 03:01 |
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SebastianB |
2022-10-17 00:29 |
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Paul Aviles |
2022-10-17 02:36 |
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hans |
2022-10-17 03:32 |
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kdk |
2022-10-17 03:49 |
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seabreeze |
2022-10-17 04:22 |
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Hunter_100 |
2022-10-17 22:21 |
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John Peacock |
2022-10-18 13:03 |
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Dan Shusta |
2022-10-17 23:38 |
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Paul Aviles |
2022-10-18 02:25 |
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Dan Shusta |
2022-10-18 03:19 |
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Re: I don't understand "warm," "dark," "covered," et al new |
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seabreeze |
2022-10-18 04:03 |
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Paul Aviles |
2022-10-18 05:16 |
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kdk |
2022-10-18 23:30 |
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Fuzzy |
2022-10-19 06:58 |
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