Klarinet Archive - Posting 000461.txt from 1997/07

From: Karen Luong <kluong@-----.com>
Subj: Re: tongue piercing
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 14:02:57 -0400

---YeomanHuff@-----.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 97-07-14 16:39:45 EDT, kluong@-----.com
(Karen Luong)
> writes:
>
> << Well, I personally don't have anything pierced (not even my ears)
but
> I know of someone who did have their tongue pierced. It doesn't
> effect your playing if you get a small gem (you don't notice it
after
> a while), but if you want to go all out and get the big ones, you
> won't be able to tongue much. >>
>
> Doesn't affect it? Doesn't affect it at all? What was his staccato
speed
> before piercing and after piercing? Did he have a decent technique
to be
> affected at all? What was his staccato before? If we're talking
112, then
> who cares? If it was 168 and he can still tongue 168, altissimo and
piano,
> then I'd say it wasn't affected. Somehow I doubt it, though.
>
> Teri Herel.
>
Before, he played fine, but now his sound is kinda muffled and he
claimed it didn't hurt when he played, but if you saw him winced
everytime he tongued you know. Oh, and he can't tongue that
fast...100 tops(never 168), but it doesn't sound clear and clean.
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