Klarinet Archive - Posting 000649.txt from 1999/08

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinet noises (was Audience Distractions)
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 02:39:25 -0400

On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Bruce Keplinger wrote:

> Here's another one... Does anyone else out there in clarinetland get
> annoyed by loose embouchures, allowing a loud PFSSS!!! at every forte
> or accented note? Orchestral wind players can, for the most part, get
> away with it, but reducing forces to chamber orchestra or smaller
> brings all those noises irritatingly to the fore.

I don't like to hear that. Some young players have heard so many
clarinetists let air escape that they begin to think it is the way you are
supposed to play. My theory has always been that any air which is just
escaping into the atmosphere isn't helping you to produce a tone.

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu

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