Klarinet Archive - Posting 000703.txt from 1996/10

From: Franck Laloe <laloe@-----.fr>
Subj: glissandos witht the bass clarinet?
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 08:02:39 -0500

Since there are so many real experts on this list, I woudl like to ask
questions about glissandos. What technique is recommended to play, for
instance, the first solo in Rhapsody in Blue? Is is mostly fingers which
progressively uncover the holes, or a throat motion, or both? Is the
glissando limited to the clarinet register, or does it go accross the
register change from the lowest up to the highest note? Auwiliary question:
with the bass clarinet and the basset horn, I never succeeded in playing
even an approximation of a long glissando. Is is something that can be done?
Or do the pads which cover all holes make this impossible? In other words,
some clarinets also have all holes covered by pads (they are not very
common, but they exist). Do they allow glissandis too?
If the question was discussed recently ont he list, I apologize: I came back
to it two months ago after more than one year of absence.
greetings Franck
Franck Laloe, labo de physique de l'ENS, 24 rue Lhomond, F75005 Paris (France)
tel 33 (1) 47 07 54 13, fax 45 35 00 76 -- laloe at physique.ens.fr