Klarinet Archive - Posting 000257.txt from 1996/07

From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns%cl.cam.ac.uk@-----.BITNET>
Subj: Re: Lips
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 09:50:21 -0400

Roger Shilcock writes:

> Does anyone play single-lip on the *bass* clarinet?

Yes; it's not my own instrument, though, and it definitely has a
rather substantial piece of something resilient (whose precise
provenance I don't know) between my teeth and the mouthpiece proper.

> especially after I had my front upper teeth crowned

NB, substantial parts of my upper incisors (inc. their crowns) were
made by me...

> Something quite different - has anyone views on the usefulness of
> electronic tuners? What features on such a device would be the most useful?

The owner of the said bass also has a spiffing tuner. You can play at
it and it lights up a light to say which note of the scale it thinks
you're playing, and there's a meter and a `balancing pair' of lights
that show you how near (or far) you are from the proper pitch.

Dead useful if someone's denying they're out of tune (not common) or
if someone is *very* slightly out and we can't make up our minds
who...

R