On Feb 15, 2006, at 1:32 PM, Phil Daley wrote:
Point taken, but as a professional bass clarinet player (a while ago) ppp was the least you were going to get
Well I've played clarinet professionally too, at many different sizes. All can play, for most notes, with literally vanishing softness--softer than anyone but the player can hear; softer than even the player can experience as anything more than a faint vibration in the lower lip. These are dynamic levels softer than ppp--but they're musically useless. Ppp is the softest anyone *ought* ever to play (save maybe at the tail end of a morendo), but to say a clarinet (or a number of other instruments) can't play softer still, is an exaggeration.
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