Klarinet Archive - Posting 000463.txt from 1998/02

From: Dee Hays <deerich@-----.net>
Subj: Re: Throat tones, again.
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 13:52:47 -0500

You are not alone. According to articles that I have read on this topic, part
of the problem stems from the fact that the register key is doing double duty.
If you size and position the register vent for a Bb with good sound and
intonation, it leads to intonation problems when going from register to
register. If size and position it for good intonation register to register,
then the Bb is very poor.

Height adjusment of the register key may improve the situation but will
probably not completely cure it. Something to watch out for in the future is
to make sure that the register vent is always very clean. It's too small for a
good Bb and any build up of any kind will make the problem worse.

Dee Hays
deerich@-----.net
Canton, SD

Fogle, Bill wrote:

> 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
>
> ----------
> > 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