I believe that I cannot live in a world without diversity, and our
world is one that different ideas live together. Of course there is
diversity in music, too. Otherwise I would throw my clarinets away and
spend more time on physics and other things I love.
There are general approaches in different field in music. You find a
general practice of composing in different period of music history, also
you find general practice of performance in different contries or different
schools now. What judges which one is superior than another? This is
really difficult.
I have learned clarinet from French school while in NTU and then
from different American schools later. They have different ideas about
how to produce a good tone and what is a good tone. Perhaps "what is
a good tone in certain place in certain piece" is more complete.
The fact that I am playing clarinet with a more "American approach"
does not mean the French guys are wrong. They are different, that's it.
While talking about "how to play an instrument", it is difficult to
say "this is the only way that works".
Long ago clarinets were played with the reeds facing the sky, a
180% difference from now. The first guy who switch the mouthpiece
180% was a genious. If he did not do that, it is possible that
the Stamitz family and Mozart would not introduce clarinets to the
orchestra because the difficulty of playing staccato.
How about if people told that guy "switching mouthpiece 180%
is forbidden by our teachers"?
The teachers have my respect. However, my brain is always
working. I cannot live without an acting brain.
Hsuan-Yi Chen
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