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Now we know how a clarinet sounds when it is played with a saxophone embouchure.
You're assuming that these guys have ever played a saxophone. As far as I'm aware the saxophone is a relative newcomer to the Indian wedding band and the clarinet has normally been the lead instrument for the past few decades, superceding the traditional double reed shanai. The clarinet having been introduced by British military bands and been absorbed into Indian culture like so many other things.Now we know how a clarinet sounds when it is played with a saxophone embouchure.
Ouch! Altissimo. You really took my post the wrong way. I was not being disrespectful of that player or the style of music, in fact I quite enjoyed that video. My "technical" remark had to do with the mouthpiece being inserted straight into the player's mouth as on a saxophone. This results in playing below the top of the mouthpiece pitch which produces a completely different tone than playing at the top of the pitch which (for good players) produces the characteristic "symphonic" clarinet tone that we are familiar with in the west. Again, to get that "sound" on a clarinet all one has to do is to play the clarinet like a saxophone. True statement---not meant to be offensive to anyone.You're assuming that these guys have ever played a saxophone. As far as I'm aware the saxophone is a relative newcomer to the Indian wedding band and the clarinet has normally been the lead instrument for the past few decades, superceding the traditional double reed shanai. The clarinet having been introduced by British military bands and been absorbed into Indian culture like so many other things.
Of course playing an Indian made Albert System clarinet that retails for about $12, using reeds that need considerable adjustment to make them even remotely playable and managing to make music as good as this isn't an easy task. A western orchestral clarinettist would have a job playing in the noisy streets of urban India for several hours. These guys have leather lungs, you can hear them several streets away, through the din of car and motorbike horns and all the other chaos.
Nor would it be right to judge the playing styles of people from a totally different culture by western classical standards. Asian musicians have their own sound, at least as distinctive as the French, German or English classical tones.
Should we wish all players around the world to sound the same, homogenised by eurocentricity, or should we take delight in the nuances of other people's cultures?
You Yanks don't know what you're missing...
by what other means should one insert it??My "technical" remark had to do with the mouthpiece being inserted straight into the player's mouth as on a saxophone
by what other means should one insert it??
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Returning to the theme of bad music (deliberately so in this case), these two are brilliant. I particulalry like the piano breaks in this one:
It's a very sad story, though.I am surprised nobody mentioned Florence Foster Jenkins.