Klarinet Archive - Posting 000931.txt from 1999/10

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: [kl] Van Doren in Syracuse: was: [kl] should the embouchure move?
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 07:48:51 -0400

The lever quote is usually attributed to Archimedes. WE all know why he
said "Eureka", don't we????
Roger S.

On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, bhunter wrote:

> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 99 02:11:17 PDT
> From: bhunter <bhunter@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] should the embouchure move?
>
> > On Thu, 28 Oct 1999 23:02:11 +0100, I said:
> >
> > > On Thu, 28 Oct 1999 17:35:21 EDT, GrabnerWG@-----.com said:
> > >
> > > > I was rather glad that the topic was posted. I confess to a very
> > > > flexible jaw, even to the point of light vibrato. I was hoping for a
> > > > good discussion....
> > >
> > > And didn't you get it, Walter?
> > >
> > > Tony
> >
> > OK, I see that I've been rather heavy-handed about this one, probably
> > due to past...Oh, well, never mind.
> >
> > Sometimes, if I have to do an exaggerated vibrato (in a modern piece,
> > say) I push and pull the instrument bodily in and out of my mouth at
> > around 5Hz, amplitude around 5mm.
> >
> > BUT THE EMBOUCHURE DOESN'T MOVE!
> >
> > ;-)
> >
> > Tony
>
> Oh boy! We gonna start a discussion now about whether the embouchure moves around the clarinet, or the clarinet moves within the embouchure? 8^)
>
> Didn't Galileo (or somebody) say something about, (in reference to levers), "Give me a place to stand, and I'll move the embouchure"?
>
> Or was it that Naval guy who said something like, "Damn the embouchures, full reed ahead"?
>
> Or was it Shakespeare, "The quality of embouchure is not strained"?
>
> Oh, I remember, it was Einstein, E@-----."!
>
> Sorry, it's late, and post-rehearsal energy is still surging.
>
> 8^)
>
> Bruce
> bhunter@-----.com
>
>
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