Klarinet Archive - Posting 000407.txt from 1997/02

From: Lisa Clayton <clayton@-----.EDU>
Subj: OFF TOPIC-- Apologia
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 21:19:31 -0500

I'm dropping the .sig quote, and my apologies for all the
commotion it's caused. My intent was in the name of
netiquette; but it seems to have backfired. Mea maxima
culpa.

On the clarinet front, I do have a clarinet-related question--
actually it also involves saxes. After about two-three years
of relearning the clarinet, re-establishing an embochure, etc.
I've been noodling around with a tenor saxophone, with mixed
results. I've noticed that my clarinet embouchure doesn't work
very well for the sax-- tends to make some notes very sharp and
makes it difficult to pump out the lower notes.

Is it common to have one kind of embochure for the clarinet vs.
sax? I haven't had much of a problem switching from clarinet to
bass clarinet despite the change in the angle of the mouthpiece,
but sax seems to be a whole different animal.

All you clarinet/sax doublers out there, any advice would be
*highly* welcomed.

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