Klarinet Archive - Posting 000420.txt from 1998/04

From: Shouryu Nohe <jnohe@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: The Clarinet Mag...
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 10:05:50 -0400

> Ah, but what is the Ellsworth key? I couldn't tell from the photo and it
> didn't say in the article.

My point. ^_^

> I have thought for some time that the Clarinanalysis column was entirely
> too cryptic. The addition of Dan Johnston seems to have not done anything
> to help. What does he mean by "grunt?"

Some players have some trouble playing pianissimo in the upper clarion and
altissimo registers - it's quite a chore for me. What I get is the actual
note, along with an 'undertone', I suppose. It's like a hollow ringing
that sounds anywhere from a sixth to a fourteenth lower. You MIGHT define
it as multiphonics, but it's very unwanted. For quite sometime, I
couldn't play pp A3s without it....somehow I've managed to dispose of that
stupid growl until C3 now...I need all the help I can get...

Shouryu Nohe
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http://web.nmsu.edu/~jnohe; ICQ 6771552
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