Klarinet Archive - Posting 001057.txt from 1999/09
From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu> Subj: Re: [kl] re: Definitive Recordings Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 00:18:33 -0400
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Daniel A. Paprocki wrote:
> I liked Drucker's sound (even with the small vibrato) but it was a
> very interesting close up. Don't we all teach embouchure where the
> chin should be flat?
Yes, I think that's true. Certainly at the beginning and intermediate
stages, that is most likely to produce the desired results. But, I have
sometimes observed that seasoned professionals may deviate quite a bit
from what we honor as established norms. It was my former saxophone
instructor, Eugene Rousseau who once told me that he had almost given up
trying to determine how a student's embouchure functioned based on the
exterior appearance. But still, he also taught that the embouchure should
be structured, with the "hollow" in the chin, although obviously the
embouchure will be less firm than on the clarinet.
> It was also interesting to see where the brass section was set up -
> Maybe the woodwinds wanted some distance from the trumpet bells.
I was puzzled by that also. As a woodwind player in an orchestra where
the trumpet bells are sometimes only inches from my head, I can sympathize
with them if that was what they were trying to accomplish. However, I
couldn't imagine how they could sit as they were without some problems
occuring due to the large empty spaces in the middle of the orchestra.
Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu
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