Klarinet Archive - Posting 001000.txt from 1999/01

From: CmdrHerel@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] PLAYING WITH THE REED "UP'!
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 16:11:50 -0500

In a message dated 1/19/99 10:32:25 AM Eastern Standard Time,
fssterns@-----.com writes:

<< ...I thought I was a reasonably experienced woodwind player...but I've
never heard the phrase "...playing with the reed 'up.'" Does it mean,
simply, extend the reed beyond the curve of the beak? >>

It means turning your mouthpiece a hundred and eighty degrees so that the reed
is on your top lip rather than your bottom!

Teri Herel.

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