Klarinet Archive - Posting 000334.txt from 1994/02
From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.EDU> Subj: Response to me from Jeff Berman Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 22:19:53 -0500
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> Subj: Re: Now that Jeff Berman, he knows how to breathe!!
After reading and being intimidated by Jeff Berman's exceptionally
lucid description of breathing in and out (I thought I knew how
to do both reasonably well, but it turns out I'm a breathing
amateur), I wrote back to him.
"Ha!!," I said. "Now answer me straight and true. Is the
diaphragm under my direct control; i.e., it is moveable by
conscious act from me?"
So Jeff wrote back to me privately, probably not wishing to embarass
a breathing amateur in public and his response is below.
> You can voluntarily move the diaphragm by taking a voluntary breath.
> If you do not do so, the brain will take over for you, but you are
> perfectly able to move this muscle voluntarily.
>
> Jeff Berman.
I am going to shut up because it is clear that I am in over my head
when I talk about breathing with Jeff (but I'll bet my basset horn
can lick his basset horn) but now that I understand this a lot better
than I did, I am still not sure where I am with respect to understanding
the thing that was called "diaphragmatic vibrato."
I'm going to give it a rest. New subject.
I also want everyone to know that I saw Clark Fobes today with a repair
problem on one of my instruments. Clark is northern California's big
cheese on clarinet repair and his mouthpieces are becoming better and
better known. While I was there, I saw a letter from Drucker on his
board congratulating him on the mouthpiece that he got from Clark and
saying how much he was enjoying using it (and Drucker bought
the mouthpiece, too - it was not a freebie).
Anyway, Clark told me that he has now joined the internet and I gave
him the secret way to get on the Klarinet board. So he will be joining
us shortly.
Clark and I are always fighting about some technical issue and he becomes
frustrated with my unwillingness to always be in agreement with him.
Our current disagreement is about the blowing out of clarinets. I
on the other hand do not understand how such an intelligent person is
not always in agreement with my point of view. We will probably kill
each other on the board, but he will still do my repairs. However, as
I get him angrier, the prices go up so I am motivated to keep him in
a happy frame of mind.
Welcome Clark!!!
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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
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