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 Re: I don't understand "warm," "dark," "covered," et al
Author: John Peacock 
Date:   2022-10-18 13:03

Hunter_100:

"I also think there is a dire need for a library of "bad" sounds too. I feel like it is just as useful to describe a sound as what it does NOT sound like as opposed to what it does sound like, if that makes any sense."

I've often had the same thought. Do you know the apocryphal Michaelangelo quote about how he was inspired to carve his David? "David was there all along: I just had to get rid of the bits of stone that weren't David" . In a similar vein, I find myself spending more time on the negative qualities of my sound and how to remove them, rather than pursuing positive qualities per se. That may seem defeatist, but so many clarinet sounds suffer from the following deficiencies that concentrating on slaying them must be an efficient route to substantial improvement (and if you haven't fixed these basics, there's little point worrying about more subtle matters):

* Thin/brittle/edgy [Too many high harmonics; probably too soft a reed]

* Buzzy/gurgly [Lack of clarity; probably too closed a lay, or too hard a reed]

* Inflexibility [Sound degenerates in the above ways at ff and pp]
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