Klarinet Archive - Posting 000022.txt from 1996/07

From: Fernando Silveira <fersilv@-----.NET>
Subj: Re: Tonguing
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 20:12:34 -0400

Hi Patrick,
the way that your teach showed you is very good to improve your stacatto.
However you can try tongue on diferent parts of the tip of the mouthpiece
varying the angle of your horn. Maybe help you.
About Mozart's concert: I saw the manuscript and it didn't show any marks of
slurs and stacatto. So all of your marks are sugestions of the revisor.

Cheers

Fernando Silveira

At 19:19 30/06/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi everyone!
> I'm new and this is my second post. I really need help. I need to
>learn to tongue faster. I have a very sluggish tongue. Does anyone know any
>exercises that will help me? A really good one, my teacher has tried almost
>everything and he's about to break my Selmer on my head. While my Selmer is
>still safe and my head is still attached, I want to learn how to tongue
>faster. My teacher taught me to set the metronome to 60 (and increase tempo
>gradually) and slur scales in 16th notes and then staccato down. That didn't
>work well, my tongue is as sluggish as ever! It's the only thing that's
>keeping me from playing Rondo from Mozart's Clar. Concerto.
> One more thing, see, I think my copy of Mozart's Clar Concerto is
>missing some notations or something. The Rondo movement. The 16th notes that
>start at the end of measure 7 sounds so different from the way the guys on
>the recordings. My music says staccato them all. On all the recordings, I can
>tell that something is suppose to be slurred, so far I can tell that the
>first 2 are slurred but I'm not sure about the others. Do you know which ones
>are and know a publishing company that publishes this piece with all the
>correct notations? My friend has a copy from Carl Fischer and I noticed that
>it's horribly wrong, I noticed wrong notes in the Adagio movement, but I
>didn't look at the rest.I was just flipping the pages, I have the version
>from the Southern Music company, Please email me if you know a good copy!
> One more thing before you read other mails. Just like my first
>posting, any one selling a used Buffet Bb clarinet? Around $900? Thanks!
>
> -Patrick Kwan
>
>email me at WACKKO8281@-----.COM
>
>PS Anyone in NeW yORk CiTy?
>
>