Klarinet Archive - Posting 000607.txt from 1997/08

From: Karl Krelove <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: Re: tounging speed
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 18:19:55 -0400

At 01:53 PM 8/15/97 -0500, H Klug wrote:
>Dear Group:
>
>Bob is, in fact, in Belgium at this very moment, and he says that
>...yes, he can tongue at the rate of 288 for 16ths.
>
Hold on...
I asked this question once recently and someone else (Dave Blumberg, I
think) guessed, but I never really got an answer as to what this means. Is
this sixteenths at quarter-note=288 (which sounds absolutely
incredible-you'd be tonguing at about 20 notes per second, about the lowest
audible pitch on a good bass woofer), or are these sixteenth notes played
at 288 (sixteenth) notes per minute (which is only a quarter = 72),
eminently doable unless someone has just coated his reed with contact cement.

Karl Krelove
"Time is the best teacher; unfortunately, it kills all its students!"