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Author: Meri
Date: 2001-09-08 17:34
What do you like and don't like about your sound?
For me, what I like is the very even tone quality across the registers, the nice-sounding altissimo register, and a certain depth and openness.
What I don't like is that it may not have enough of a ringing edge.
Meri
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2001-09-08 18:02
An interesting ? , Meri. I like your thots, except for the altis., I just dont like to play-around up there anymore!! Since I play more bass, I love the "deep-throated, resonant, [powerful-when-needed] chalameaux, and fair clarion on my Selmer 33. On my L7, the same chal plus a VG clarion. Will be interesting to see what others will come up with!! Don
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Author: Terry Horlick
Date: 2001-09-08 18:32
I used to love the chalameaux sound my horns give. I also love the "ring" all my Buffets got around the break in the clarion register. But now since I am using my 1925 FB every note in the clarion register has that gorgeous ringing... man I love that horn! I like the way I can get that same sound when I go long on the Bb. Also the Bb throat tone has that ring when you use the A key and the side key together.
This horn gives a nice mellow altissimo, but I just like those lower ranges much better. Altissimo on this and all other horns I have tried is just too bright for me.
Only problem is my fingers tend to bump some of the extra keys, and the low E key gets lost between the F# and the Eb keys.
Lately I have been listening to CD's, my current favorites are the Marcellus Mozart A concerto and (forgive me if you hate this guy) Stoltzman's "Aria". These and my old Pete Fountain recordings remind me just how much more beautiful the sound of a clarinet is than any other instrument. I think the English horn down at the bottom of his range, comes close but doesn't quite equal the clarinet sound for beauty.
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Author: Anji
Date: 2001-09-08 22:15
It seems to me that the upper reach of the Soprano clarinet holds most appeal.
I got into the clarinet for the lowest 4 notes. I will even send one of my horns up to Steve Fox to be Bassetized, Hallelujyah!
I have been playing some Yamaha products, the SEvA included that are pretty resonant top to bottom... something I find wanting in most of the R13s played.
This open sound may not transfer into the concert hall, but the only time you'll find me there is when I'm holding down a cushion inna cheap seats.
What I don't like?
There's a pronounced under-honk, followed by an evil smell when I play the K.622
around meas 58. It's usually pretty flat, but the tone has been improving.
Any ideas?
anji
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Author: Corey
Date: 2001-09-09 02:23
I like my sound because it's even and the intonation is great, I don't like my sound because it has a "cheapy" metallic aspect to it( till i get my new mouthpiece around christmas time). I am mad that i broke my good ligature today! :(
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Author: Sara
Date: 2001-09-09 02:28
It depends on the day, but when its a good day for me I love my real high note, well up to high F anyways, and the lower notes. I've never really liked the notes right after the break, the b, c, and d. But other than that, I pretty much love my sound, but a really good day is one out of three. Anyways, I'm wanting to change my ligature fform a luyben inverted, to an eddie daniels II. I'm working up the money for one right now.
Sara
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Author: David Kinder
Date: 2001-09-09 03:43
I find that I tend to overblow when I play a middle B on the staff and it overblows a 12th. Not what I would want it to do in a concert. Maybe the Brannens can do something about that. I also think it's time to get a wider tip opening on my mouthpiece. I've been using a Vandoren M13 with Vandoren #4 1/2 reeds, but I still overblow. Maybe an M13 lyre is in order.
I also don't like my tone to sound raspy or airy at ALL. It just bugs me when I can "hear" my airstream over the note I'm trying to play. It's been lessened with the Festival, but I can still tell.
I was playing my Festival in a community band, and I just LOVE the way my low E plays! It feels like a real note - instead of a foghorn! It had real tonality - and I was awed by it! That was cool.
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Author: Nicole Y.
Date: 2001-09-09 04:50
I hate that buzz I get on my Noblet when I try to go from A to B. Surprisingly, it doesn't show up on any other horn. I hate having to play with retainers.
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Author: ron b
Date: 2001-09-09 21:28
I love my sound, Meri. I love everything about it... low notes, high notes, those little ones in between; each one with a charistic all its own, together making wonderful music. No one else's sound is quite like mine. No one sould try to duplicate it, as nice as it is. It took a long time for me to realize how good I am, that I should just be myself and enjoy what I have to offer.
Benny Goodman, on the other hand, was never satisfied with his sound. He was fanatical in his search for the perfect reed, perfect mpc, perfect instrument, his search and determination bordering on the fanatical. From what I can glean from those who knew him, Benny G. was incessantly striving to be 'better'.
Which one of us do you think made the hit parade?
- ron b :] :]
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Author: Bob Arney
Date: 2001-09-10 02:14
Nicole Y said (in part) "I hate having to play with retainers." Yeah? Just wait until you get to try it with a false upper plate. :-[
Bob A
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2001-09-10 03:31
I like my clumsiness when I try to play as I like and hate my worldliness when I try to imitate others' playing.
There is a much differece between playing clarinet myself and listening to a player however good he/she may be. When playing myself, clarinet is part of myself. When another person is playing, just sound comes to my ears.
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Author: Robert Gifford
Date: 2001-09-10 05:11
I have a very mellow tone which I like, I don't like the sound that I hear in my ears, but I like the sound that comes out (recording myself). It gets annoying though sometimes when I'm playing by myself, because I always thing I sound horrible.
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Author: Azzacca
Date: 2001-09-10 13:26
I hate it when I am playing any note with the register key after a lower note - because it doesn't always come out clean.
I also have a crown that likes to vibrate (I used to take my retainer out when I played in high school, Nicole).
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Author: Sylvain
Date: 2001-09-10 15:57
I think overall my sound calls for improvement and always will.
Intonation has always been an issue for me but is improving.
I like to have a very centered and focused sound, brighter than most people like. I tend to concentrate on projection and color. The more partials I can hear the happier I am.
My ultimate goal is not to have one sound but many. One can't play Brahms like Poulenc...
-Sylvain
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Author: David Pegel
Date: 2001-09-10 20:55
I like my sound because it's very deep and very rich, and my altissimos are as a whole very clear and enunciated.
I don't like my sound because my throat tones are airy, I "chirp" on the breaks, and I'm too loud.
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Author: David Spiegelthal
Date: 2001-09-11 16:05
I like my sound because the cat no longer yowls when I play, and the children even occasionally ask me to play their favorite tunes for them and they don't wince when I toot. Who could ask for more?
I don't like my sound because it isn't sufficiently like Marcellus', Sabine Meyer's, Stanley Drucker's, Jack Brymer's, or what have you, and consequently major symphony orchestras have not been inviting me to play first-desk clarinet in their organizations...........Bummer.
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2001-09-12 12:44
I like the way the audience THINKS I am an accomplished clarinet player - Hehe!
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Author: Swing Band Queen Katai Katai
Date: 2002-04-07 09:18
I'm generally unhappy with the whole thing in general. Sometimes it borders on mediocre, but I always hear some air going through. Perhahps it's the combination of embrosure used to the sax, crappy rico 2's, and a really bad mouthpisece on a really bad clarinet?
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