Klarinet Archive - Posting 000966.txt from 1999/07

From: "Paulette W. Gulakowski" <pollyg@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] spellings of "embouchure"
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 20:43:50 -0400

My Webster's Ninth defines "embrasure" 1: a recess of a door or window
2: an opening with sides flaring outward in a wall or parapet of a
fortification usually allowing for the firing of cannon.
Do you think he was comparing playing clarinet with firing cannon?
<]:o)
Paulette
and I'd like to know more about Starvinsky...

On Sun, 25 Jul 1999 11:33:35 -0500 Jack Kissinger <kissingerjn@-----.EDU>
writes:
>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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