Klarinet Archive - Posting 001178.txt from 1997/10

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Long Tones
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 17:35:08 -0500

Embouchure serves the same function, but behaves differently for different
applications.....use of some muscles in the embouchure are required for
faster playing, and the oppositte is true as well. However, what the
first post said was not that it didn't serve the same function in fast or
slow passages but that it requires fast and slow exercises.....a
completely different meaning than the second post. Like a swimmer swims
distance, sprints, and isolation strokes, so an embouchure can make great
use of different kinds of exercises...both fast and slow......long tones
are excellent slow exercises for this set of muscles.

Roger Garrett

On Sun, 26 Oct 1997 HatNYC62@-----.com wrote:

>
> <<The embouchure muscles are like any other muscles. They need slow
> exercises as well as fast.>>
>
> This makes no sense to me. The embochure SHOULD be serving the same function
> in either fast or slow passages, no?
>