Klarinet Archive - Posting 000029.txt from 1994/11

From: pauline minevich f <pminevic@-----.CA>
Subj: Re: Embouchure for low vs high clarinets
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 1994 18:32:21 -0500

Just a side-note to this discsussion - My bass teacher (Sidney
Saltzman, one of the dedicatees of Michael Drapkin's excellent excerpt
book) said there were three rules about playing bass.
1. Don't try to play it like a soprano clarinet - it's a different
instrument. (This was the best advice I ever had - you have to (IMHO)
have a completely different embouchure. I call it the cathedral
embouchure; large, high and arched.)
2. Don't ever breathe, because you don't know what will happen on the
next note!
3. Play loud until the conductor tells you not to.
He was a wonderful teacher - Sidney, if you're out there, I still follow
your advice!
Pauline Minevich
Wilfrid Laurier University

   
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