Re: vibrato

[allen watsky <awatsky...>]

Mike's right. I had a listen to some of the Taras stuff last night.Wondering
about this vibrato thread. Theres a sort of a quaver that DT seems to be
doing  with his oral cavity. Its always there. Playing without vibrato
sounds kind of lifeless. The folks who play vibratoless are on the wrong
track. On a stringed instrument the tone becomes thin. It just don't sound
good. Hey !, besides the violins on Avraham Fried's CD's all use lots a'
vibrato. Forget about early music perfromance practice there. How 'bout we
split the difference and call it artistic licence. Cordially Al Watsky
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From: <Messiah701 (at) aol(dot)com>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: vibrato


> How interesting!  I recently took a clarinet lesson with Andy Statman.
The first thing that he noticed (and quickly changed in) my playing, was how
I made use of vibrato.  I used it every so often to embelish certain held
out notes, and to add color to certain sustained tones.  He told me that
Dave used a constant vibrato.  It is a very light vibrato, unlike that used
as an ornament (because it is constant.)  The one he taught me is more of a
quiver than a traditionally used wider vibrato.  This is something that is
unique to the clarinet I suppose,  and it changed my sound completely. I
thought you all might find it interesting!!    Michael Winograd
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