Klarinet Archive - Posting 000616.txt from 1997/05

From: DYungkurth@-----.com
Subj: Breathing Noise (was What is the sound etc.)
Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 16:06:52 -0400

Ed Lyons said:

>I notice that when I am playing sometimes I hear my breath in the tone.
>This comes and goes. Does anyone have any recommendations about what I
>am doing wrong or how I can modigy my embouchure or breathing to minimize
>the sound of my breath.

I've never "heard my breath in the tone", at least as I would describe it.
The closest thing I recall which might be similar was when I was
"auditioning" a used A R13 Buffet, which I eventually purchased. I
complained to my teacher that certain notes sounded "fuzzy". He said that he
couldn't hear it from more than a few feet away and to be more concerned with
pitch and intonation. I later found that the fuzzy sound disappeared with a
slightly softer reed (or a reed adjustment). The problem I had was primarily
in the notes from middle C to throat Bb.

Don Yungkurth (DYungkurth@-----.com)