Klarinet Archive - Posting 000190.txt from 1994/02

From: Jordan Selburn <jselburn@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Vibrato (what about sax?)
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 17:32:46 -0500

Cary Karp wrote:
>On Tue, 15 Feb 1994, Jay Heiser wrote:
>
>> What's the literature say about sax vibrato?
>>
>> I'd be really surprised to learn that anything but lip vibrato
>> was in common use for the saxophone.
>
>I'm not sure that the literature says much of anything, but I never heard
>of anything other than lip vibrato on the saxophone. There is at least
>one classically trained saxophonist on the list -- what's the story from
>that side of the fence?

A few years ago, I took some "classical" sax lessons for the express
purpose of sounding like a sax player, as opposed to a clarinetist playing
sax. The main hurdle, not entirely overcome yet, was that of learning
vibrato and my teacher (plays with the San Francisco Symphony and San Jose
Symphony among many others) taught strictly lip vibrato. I don't know if
that was the only technique he uses, but if I could sound like him just
once on sax I could die happy.

Jordan