Klarinet Archive - Posting 000342.txt from 1996/11

From: Roger Shilcock
Subj: Reed on top (fwd)
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 04:15:21 -0500

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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 12:18:27 -0800
From: Lisa Gartrell Yeo <ux403%freenet.victoria.bc.ca@-----.UK>
Subject: Reed on top

I thought that articulation was achieved with the throat or
diaphragm somehow rather than the tongue when the reed is "on top."

Lisa Gartrell Yeo

Eighteenth-century doubling oboists may well not have had the same
problems, especially with the long narrow clarinet mouthpieces common in
that period.
Roger Shilcock