Klarinet Archive - Posting 000032.txt from 1994/11

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.EDU>
Subj: Do we have a contradiction here?
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 1994 18:32:24 -0500

> From: MX%"pminevic@-----.88
> Subj: Re: Embouchure for low vs high clarinets

> 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

This would appear to be a contradiction of the previously posted
statement that the embouchure of a bass clarinet is the same as
a soprano clarinet. I do not say I support or deny this view: only
that it appears not to be in agreement with the expressed position.

>
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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
(leeson@-----.edu)
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