Klarinet Archive - Posting 000684.txt from 1998/10

From: "David C. Blumberg" <reedman@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] re:what is grunting
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 09:37:22 -0400

Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 20:20:28 EDT
From: pollyg@-----. Gulakowski)
Subject: Re: [kl] grunt- register tube
Excuse my ignorance - what is "grunting"? I've not heard that term
before.
tia
Paulette
Live a life of EXCLAMATION not explanation!
Old clarinetists never die, they just get reed-ic-u-lous!
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It's a subtone, sounds like a grunt that occurs if the register tube is the
wrong length. Nice for multiphonics, but not much else ;). Something you
wouldn't want to occur while playing the Pines of Rome solo. Brand (first
week or so) new Clarinets don't always do it right away, but after a few
days, it tends to show up if it is going to do it.
David Blumberg
reedman@-----.com
http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet/Music/Blumberg.html

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