Klarinet Archive - Posting 000454.txt from 1998/02

From: bill.fogle@-----.com (Fogle, Bill)
Subj: Re: Throat tones, again.
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 13:52:38 -0500

My throat Bb on my new Selmer 10R is awful. I assume it's a (mal)adjustment
of the height of the register key.
Bill Fogle
Washington, DC
bill.fogle@-----.com

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> From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
> To: klarinet@-----.us
> Subject: Re: Throat tones, again.
> Date: Monday, February 09, 1998 1:48 PM
>
> I was hoping to see some scholarly and learned discussion about this
topic,
> because I have a similar problem. My throat Bb is thin and raspy, with
the
> sound of air escaping. I've been through two different instruments,
three
> mouthpieces and a gaggle of reeds (what are a group of reeds called,
> anyway? A thicket?), with little change in the tone quality. I am
pleased
> with the "richness" of my sound over the rest of the range, but that Bb
> makes me cringe.
>
> Now, I have previously admitted to being an idiot on this list, and it is
> likely the two situations are related. And, it's only the
> register-and-A-key Bb which is raspy; the A-key-plus-third-trill-key
> combination has a much more pleasing tone, but it is annoyingly flat.
>
> Is this a common problem?
>
> Matthew A. Cullen wrote:
> >...it seems that my section
> >( and myself) have a problem with the tone quality of the Throat tones (
> >especially Bb, and A), not so much as the intonation...
> --
> - Tim Roberts
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
> timr@-----.com