Klarinet Archive - Posting 000606.txt from 1998/02

From: "Gene Nibbelin" <gnibbelin@-----.com>
Subj: Re: pleeeeease help me!!
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 00:17:45 -0500

Wendy -

Roger Garrett said it all, except that your band "conductor" should by
working on a train for AMTRAK. Either that or he is a triangle virtuoso.

Good luck on getting your embouchure back to normal.

Gene Nibbelin

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> From: Wendy .................. <zanahoria29@-----.com>
> To: klarinet@-----.us
> Subject: pleeeeease help me!!
> Date: Sunday, February 15, 1998 9:19 PM
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>
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> My director needed an Eb clarinet player and is having me play it. Ive
> been playing it for about 2 or 3 weeks and he expects it to be perfect,
> because *sarcastically* if somebody's good at Bb, then they'll naturally
> be good at Eb, right?? Well the lower register is very flat at the
> upper register is kinda sharp and all the notes I play sound pinched and
> Im biting down really hard. Can anybody help me?
>
> Wendy
>
> Pluuuuuuus, I have to play bass clarinet for a wind symphony and now I
> feel like Im losing my endurance when I play Bb. I lose my embouchure a
> lot more quickly. Does this sound normal?? Please help meeeee......
>
>
>
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