Klarinet Archive - Posting 000935.txt from 1999/07

From: Jack Kissinger <kissingerjn@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: [kl] spellings of "embouchure"
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 12:33:35 -0400

My favorite for a long time has been "embasure" as in the following (copied
from the archives -- The topic was Starvinsky's "Soldier's Tale" in his
version for clarinet, violin and piano. The piece is for clarinet in A and
calls for a low Eb as the clarinet's last note in the second movement.):

"In his book, Brymer suggests either a clarinet with the low Eb, or a
"flexible embrasure" (if I remember his words correctly)."

What I really like about this one is that Tony Pay then used the spelling to
create his own term for a technique to hit the note and it fit pretty well!

"The way to do it is this: you lightly lay the length of your tongue flat
along the surface of the reed, and then blow whilst maintaining the
contact. This 'embrasure' considerably lowers the pitch of the low E,
and a very relaxed embouchure completes the pitch change to Eb."

Best regards,
Jack Kissinger
St. Louis

Mark Charette wrote:

> If people don't mind - would you add your own sightings? It _is_ funny to
> see the spellings & typos! Once we get a few more I'll add the list to the
> Sneezy Web pages.
> --------------
> From: Edwin V. Lacy <el2@-----.edu> (and now mixed with mine and
> sorted)
> > ambochire
> > armbature
> armbrochure
> armbroshure
> armbrosure
> > armiture
> > embashure
> > emboshure
> > embouchere
> > embrochur
> > embrochure
> embrosure
> > emburchure
> > ombichoure
> > ombichure
> ---------
> Mark Charette@-----.org, whose spell checker didn't like this posting one
> bit!
>
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