Klarinet Archive - Posting 000954.txt from 1999/10

From: Anne Bell <bell@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] should the embouchure move?
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 12:22:02 -0400

I've seen the same basic idea used to show just the opposite. Do the same thing and then finger an altissimo pitch- with good support and no fear it comes popping right out.
Anne

At 09:23 AM 10/29/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I knew of a teacher who would stand behind the student and hold the
>clarinet for him/her while the student had the clarinet in their mouth.
>The student would close their eyes in order not to see the note the
>teaching was fingering. The teacher would say blow and almost always
>the student would either honk or squeak supposedly proving that every
>note required subtle changes of oral cavity, lip pressure and
>embouchure. I'm not sure how scientific this is but it did show that
>there are subtle changes in the mouth and embouchure with notes that are
>even very close to one another.
>
>Mark
>
>GrabnerWG@-----.com wrote:
>>

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