Klarinet Archive - Posting 001050.txt from 1998/05

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Help-embouchure!?!?
Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 19:03:29 -0400

On Mon, 18 May 1998 Gary_VanCott@-----.com wrote:

> Alain Codera wrote . . . And my embouchure keeps changing from the low
> register to the high. I know IT SHOULDN'T. . . .
>
> ****
> Didn't we have one of those WWIII arguments about two years ago on this
> subject. I think the sides were:
>
> 1. The embouchure doesn't/shouldn't change.
> 2. The embouchure has to change (even if it is ever so slightly) because
> the reed vibrates differently as you go up or down.

I don't recall a discussion...but it might have been before I got on the
list. I can see how one person's idea of very slight movement could be
interpreted by someone else as too much......but the post Gary has quoted
above implied quite a bit of dramatic movement.......which I would think
we might agree would be the wrong kind of adjustment/movement.

Roger Garrett
IWU

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