Klarinet Archive - Posting 000667.txt from 1999/08

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinet noises (was Audience Distractions)
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 02:39:43 -0400

At 05:32 PM 8/23/1999 -0500, Ed Lacy wrote:
>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.
>
I have heard this artifact very often in recordings, but seldom in live
performance. Is it just that the close miking picks up and emphasizes the
sound of the escaping breath?

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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