Klarinet Archive - Posting 000543.txt from 1998/01

From: "Lorne G. Buick" <lgbuick@-----.net>
Subj: Re: Re: tuning and articulation
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 00:22:16 -0500

This business of notes starting at a higher pitch and then settling is
something I've been aware of for a long time, but it never occurred to me
that it had anything to do with the densities of different gases. I always
assumed it was due the embouchure tensing slightly as I tongued the note,
and learned to correct it by adjusting my embouchure for the beginning of
the note. I'll certainly have to give the Hasty method a try!
>
> This is something Stanley Hasty addressed in one of my lessons with him in
> 1976. Although he did not offer an explanation of the cause of the higher
> initial pitch, his solution was to blow air through the clarinet for a short
> time before tonguing to start the note. In this way, you avoid a higher
>pitch
> at the biginning of the note.
>
> Tom L.

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