Klarinet Archive - Posting 000979.txt from 1997/10

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: bad tone
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 05:22:59 -0400

Maybe she is relaxing the wrong muscles when you're not looking, so that
her mouth feels more comfortable. If she's *starting* with a no. 3 reed,
that seems quite likely. One can quite clearly see newish players doing
this sometimes - I probably did it myself.
(She may also have a bad ear, of course...).
Roger Shilcock

On Fri, 24 Oct 1997 pmedina@-----.net wrote:

> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 21:45:40 -0500 (CDT)
> From: pmedina@-----.net
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.us
> To: klarinet@-----.us
> Subject: bad tone
>
> I teach woodwinds in a middle school and am lucky enough to have the
> beginner clarinets all by themselves. I always seem to have one clarinet
> player who plays very flat. The embouchure looks good and when I play with
> the student, she matches my pitch after some work. What is she doing to
> play so flat in the first place? She is on a normandy clarinet, a B45 mpc
> and size 3 Vandoren reeds( I didn't recommend the size, the music
> supervisor does that). They have all been playing for 10 weeks now.
>
> TIA
>
> Pat
>
>
>