Klarinet Archive - Posting 000335.txt from 1998/11

From: Neil Leupold <nleupold@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bass Clarinet Extended Technique...
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 09:49:51 -0500

On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Benjamin A. Maas wrote:

> 1. How do you get a good slap tongue sound on a bass. I just can't get too
> wild with this.... I am looking for the bass clarinet equivalent to a
> Bartok Pizzicato.

This may serve to do nothing more than annoy you, but the master of
slap tongue was -- and probably still is -- Mark Arritola. Surely he
used it at least a few times while at Eastman. Who knows where that
nutball is these days, but I've never heard anybody do it quite the
way he does. If you're still in touch with him (probably not, I
know), it would be worth asking.

Anyway, good to see you back, Ben. One more semester until you're
out of USC?

Neil

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