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It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be an expert connoisseur of music without being able to play a note on any instrument. Of course, music would come to a halt if nobody ever learned to play it. But if everybody grew up thinking that music was synonymous with playing it, think how relatively impoverished many lives would be. Couldn't we learn to think of science in the same way?
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The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.
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I was improvising before I was reading music.
I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.
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I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.
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We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation.
We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano.
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The soprano has all those other instruments in it.
It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.
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So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.