Klarinet Archive - Posting 000797.txt from 1999/05

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Support but blow gently
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 04:46:18 -0400

Did this NY flautist realise flutes are much better in a pie??
Roger S.

On Sat, 15 May 1999, avrahm galper wrote:

> Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 20:55:23 -0400
> From: avrahm galper <agalper@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Support but blow gently
>
> Blowing out!
>
> If something is made out of wood of any sort, chances are that within a
> given time there will be changes.
> The player warming up the clarinet, moisture entering the instrument,
> the warmth.
> Changes are bound to happen.
> Few instruments are lucky not to change. Nothing the manufacturer can
> guarantee.
> After all, it still is a piece of wood.
> As far as "blowing out"- I have seen some instruments lose their
> characteristics simply by the way they were played. Mediocre reeds,
> loud blowing, reedy kind of playing.
> That certainly affects an instrument.
>
> On the other hand there are players who can make a instrument play
> better simply by the way they blow and "break in" the instrument.
> It is legend that Harold Wright had a few sets of instruments at a time.
> The newer ones he would break in very slowly to allow the wood to get
> used to the humidity and all that goes with it
> I remember quite awhile ago reading about a NY flutist's theory (I just
> forget who it was) that the molecules in the material gets "unsettled"
> with playing.
> He advocated putting the flute in an oven ( he had a process for
> that) and "setting" the molecules for good.
> That was of course a metal flute. You wouldn't want to do this with a
> wooden clarinet, molecules or not.
> On most clarinets the top of the upper joint widens a bit with playing,
> the dimensions change and that gives a "blown out" feeling.
>
> I recently had such a thing corrected by sending the top joint of my
> clarinet down to Guy Chadash in NY. He bored out the top of the upper
> joint and inserted a plug.
> Then he was able to rebore the instrument back to what it was
> originally.
> The clarinet worked like a charm.
> I had been thinking of getting a new top joint but that was risky in
> case the two joints didn't match.
>
> The latest fad of this or that horn is exaggerated.
> If the player doesn't have in his or her head the kind of sound he or
> she want to produce, no new instrument is going to make that much of a
> real change.
> My friend, the late Yona Ettlinger, told me that if someone is played a
> certain clarinet and got used to and plays well on it, they doesn't
> have to change to another brand.
>
> Support but blow gently
>
>
> Avrahm Galper
> CLARINET TONE TECHNIQUE AND STACCATO
> CLARINET UPBEAT SCALES AND ARPEGGIOS
> http://www.sneezy.org/avrahm_galper/index.html
>
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