Klarinet Archive - Posting 000647.txt from 1997/02

From: paolo ravaglia <peval@-----.IT>
Subj: Flutterbass
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 01:57:10 -0500

>Can anyone give me suggestions about how to flutter tongue on the BASS
>CLARINET?
>
>Please send me suggestions at
>
>slatkin@-----.il or to the clarinet list
>
>Thank you,
>
>Shiri Slatkin

Hi Shiri,
it's the same like Bb, but you must adjust the mouth position fo bass
mouthpiece.
Try to think as a sax player than a clarinet one.
More perpendicular relation between mouth and mouthpiece and
a very wide "O"

OOORRRRRRRRRRRRR

You can flutter with throat too.

Pablo

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Paolo Ravaglia Roma Italy
Alter Ego Contemporary Music Ensemble
Conservatorio "G. Frescobaldi"
of FERRARA clarinet main teacher
peval@-----.it
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