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Re: Are people playing louder?

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2020-09-19 02:21

Putting Gigliotti's reasons for choosing his equipment to provide a lot of bang for the buck and our mutual friend's opinion of the effect of those choices aside, the fact is that Gigliotti is, I assume, included in your "then" and that Morales is certainly included in anyone's "now." I'm not sure you make a trend out of louder playing without cherry-picking the players you use as exemplars. You hear a lot of noodling in your shop, but do those players blast the same way when they're in their ensembles? I just don't know.

How loud did the players of the late 19th century play? How loud were the clarinetists who first performed the symphonies of Mahler and the tone poems of Strauss? Except for anecdotal reports, we'd have no way of knowing, and the contemporary reporters would not have had the same frame of reference we have today.

Karl

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