Klarinet Archive - Posting 000437.txt from 1997/02

From: TRACY ANN MOORE <TMOORE@-----.EDU>
Subj: OFF TOPIC-- Apologia -Reply -Reply -Reply
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 13:29:55 -0500

>>> TRACY ANN MOORE 02/13/97 12:00pm >>>
When I started learning the tenor last year, I was told that your
embouchure should be loose as if you were just given a shot of
novacaine. Also, in a little pamphlet I received in a class from Doc
Tenney (I think that was his name) you should say the letter V and that
is supposed to be the embouchure.

>>> Lisa Clayton <clayton@-----.EDU> 02/12/97 05:35pm >>>
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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