Klarinet Archive - Posting 000583.txt from 1998/09

From: "David C. Blumberg" <reedman@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] re:embouchure problem
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 02:09:11 -0400

Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:22:25 +0000
From: "Richard Sankovich" <sanko@-----.edu>
Subject: Clarinet overblowing
Here is weird problem that I would like to have advice on. I find it
very easy to overblow all of my clarinets in the clarion register.
All it takes is just the slightest increase in embrouchure pressure,
and bingo, the pitch of the note has jumped up about a sixth! On
many of the notes I can easily get it to overblow a second time, to a
pitch that is about a fifth higher still. This overblowing happens
so easily that I have to be very careful when playing in the clarion
register to prevent it from happening. It feels almost like a leak
or crack problem, except that it isn't, because it happens with all
of my clarinets (Buffet R-13 B-flat and A, Noblet C, Conn B-flat),
and all of them (except the A) use completely different mouthpieces,
ligatures, and even reeds. So it is an embrouchure problem. Has
anyone else ever experienced this sort of thing? I'd appreciate
having your comments.
----Richard Sankovich

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Try putting a little more of your lower lip in your mouth (less red on the
outside),and take a little less mouthpiece also (on the top teeth). Try
that combo, and see if that fixes the problem. Let me know.

David Blumberg
reedman@-----.com
http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet/Music/Blumberg.html

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