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 Re: what does it mean to focus sound on the clarinet
Author: MKilpatrick 
Date:   2023-05-22 02:30

It never ceases to baffle me why creating "something as close as possible to a pure sinewave" could ever be a goal. That is essentially saying that the note is devoid of absolutely all colour and personality by means of the absence of any overtunes or fluctuations in timbre. As far as I'm concernned, "focused" doesn't really mean anything in this context, and certainly not in a positive sense. People use this term all the time for saxophones too.

I mean, WHY? Why do classical clarinetists and oboeists strive to sound as pure, straight and colourless as possible? Violinists use vibrato all the time, so why is that the woodwinds have to be constrained to be as colourless and square as possible when they have a solo line in a classical context?

Beauty is, of course, always in the eyes of the beholder. But Ralph McLane sounds empty and characterless to me. I'm not a big Benny Goodman fan but he sounded rather more interesting playing Mozart, not as if he had a pole stuck up his arse.

Michael
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