Klarinet Archive - Posting 000287.txt from 1997/03

From: J-Love <jwg5@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Breathing on the clarinet (and wind instruments in general)
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 15:53:10 -0500

On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Jonathan Cohler wrote:

> This of course relates to efficiency of your setup (and is another reason
> why the hard/close setups are not as good as soft/open setups). Any white
> noise you have in your sound is wasted air. Furthermore, you can save

I am getting a lot of "white noise" in playing softly in the lower
register. What can you recommend, and what does a "hard/close" setup mean?

Thanks,
Jaime