Author: RobinDesHautbois
Date: 2011-03-10 13:01
Mark, on that (misperception about hard reeds = warm tone) I completely agree!
What easier reeds tend to do is add buzz to the tone, but this can be avoided with proper scraping. Then again, easy OR hard, I have found that young (green) cane and/or improper tying can just kill anything.
Again, I was hoping that endurance stay in the other trhead, but my problem with endurance is simply that I've only started practicing about 8 months ago: before that, it was an average of 30 minutes a month for 10 years!
I am mostly suspicious about recordings now, more/less buzz and warm/dark tone can be the result of microphone-musician-room layout as well as post-production software filtering. I don't think classical ensembles large and small use post-production... then again, they do hire experts that have much better equipment than I have and know what they are doing!.... but for sure acoustic properties change a lot.
For example, if I play in my study, I can hear a ring... a sort of echo in the stairwell just as the note end. This ring IS happening WHILE playing, so the effect on the tone colour is to make it brighter.
Robin Tropper
M.A.Sc., B.Mus., B.Ed.
http://RobinDesHautbois.blogspot.ca/music
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