[Thor Joachim Haga]

The only explanation I have for this is that with the piano, after you’ve hit the key you can’t really shape the tone the way you can with a wind or string instrument, making it, to me, less expressive.

That’s an interesting take on it. I suppose my attraction isn’t so much the tone or sound itself, but the many layers that a polyphonic instrument allows. It should please you, however, that woodwinds come in at second after piano (if I have to be specific, then maybe oboe slightly ahead of your clarinet, but love the whole group).