Klarinet Archive - Posting 000068.txt from 1969/12

From: kurtheisig@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] RES: RES: Orchestral Pitch
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500


Hmmm---try closing the register key down with a thicker cork. That is easy to change back and forth.

I use slices of wine cork and brush on Loctite cyano acrylate glue. (super glue---but BRUSH ON---if it gets on plastic, it can cause it to crack.)

Sharp. Does it have a peg?

Clarinet should be played sitting right up on the front edge of the chair. Bonade used to say thumbs on the shirt buttons, so in VERY close to the body. My professor, Clem Hutchinson, Arey's top student, taught me that. (1/2 way up the thigh for short people like me---further for tall people.)

I show students that there is a "sweet spot". Sit up front straight up and lean forward from the HIPS, like you are hinged. At about 5 degrees, if you keep the clarinet in tight, you can hear the tone get radically better. (assuming thumbs at about the shirt buttons and corners of the mouth in towards the mthpc, and jaw down--as taught by Bill Stubbins at Michigan, Ann Arbor and the great oboist Steve Adelstein.)

THEN, with the bass make sure that the peg is DIRECTLY under your tail bone on the floor with you leaning forward as with the Bb.

This really improves bass playing. Clem Hutchinson, my prof, is the one that got Selmer to put a re-curve on their bass clarinet necks. This does the same thing, with less awkwardness. I created this position to approximate what he got form the re-curve. Again, lean forward slightly too.

Proper length of reed--ie correcting the length of the profile up to the bark, helps too.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Rachel Roessel <gsurosey@-----.com>
>Sent: Nov 16, 2010 9:59 PM
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>Subject: Re: [kl] RES: RES: Orchestral Pitch
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>> Make sure the A and Ab keys are opening sufficiently, and also the
>
>> Bb/register key. The register mechanism on bass clarinets is notoriously
>> unreliable, and is involved in the throat Bb.
>
>Even before looking at a tuner to see how wide the interval is, going from
>throat A to throat Bb is audibly a much bigger jump than it should be. The Bb is
>the major problem. The horn overall runs sharp (so a lot of that may just be
>me), but that's an especially bad note. I've noticed that on other basses I've
>played, but not as bad as this one is.
>
>Rachel
>
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