Klarinet Archive - Posting 000880.txt from 1999/04

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: "All that stuff about the diaphragm" (corrected repost, long)
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 18:27:40 -0400

On Mon, 19 Apr 1999 09:29:18 -0700, timr@-----.com said:

> On Sat, 17 Apr 1999 10:22:54 +0100, Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay) wrote:
>
> > You don't do anything -- you just imagine it. The only change is in
> > the sound. You shouldn't take my word for this -- you have to try it
> > yourself. Play about with it for a bit. Convince yourself that you
> > really are keeping everything else the same in your experience.
> >
> > Remember the 'no-pressure system' -- well, this is the 'no-doing
> > system'!

Hi Tim.

> I believe the famous

Not to me, I'm afraid. I'm just a Limey.

> Professor Harold Hill

So, who he? When he?

> of the Gary Conservatory of Music

What that?

> termed this scheme "The Think System".

Oh yeah?

> "Remember, men, if you can THINK the Minuet in G, you can PLAY the
> Minuet in G."

Well, then "The Think System" is different, probably. Or, possibly,
not; depending on how you interpret what the quote means. That's
because, "Think the Minuet in G" is a big idea that needs unpacking.
"Think the diminuendo" is a bit more tractable. And, I maintain, a bit
easier to see the value of.

So, since I don't really understand what Professor Hill meant, what's
*your* experience of trying what I said?

(By the way, I should say that the clearest demonstration of the
technique I've found is to start a note, F in the clarinet register say,
and play it quite loud with a flexed and expanded abdomen. Then you can
diminuendo to nothing over about 15 seconds while keeping everything
constant. Try 10 seconds, and then 5 seconds too. Do it with someone
else playing the A natural above, if possible, and match the diminuendos
*just by listening*. Then try faster, bell like attacks, again as a
duet if possible.)

> :)

:-)

Tony
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