Klarinet Archive - Posting 000797.txt from 1999/12

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Tschaikovsky No. 6, 1st clarinet - Responses
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 12:55:42 -0500

On Thu, 23 Dec 1999 12:04:50 EST, GrabnerWG@-----.com said:

> On very quick "light" articulation passages, especially in the upper
> registers, I move my tongue to the right corner of the reed. This
> seems to help me achieve a quicker, cleaner response. What is your
> comment on this technique?

The proof of the pudding is in the eating, isn't it?-)

I'm in favour of doing anything that works, and what you describe is one
way of reducing the area of contact, so it connects with the general
principle I was referring to: that a smaller, faster-moving object is
best controlled by a smaller, more precisely applied force.

I've said this before, but I really do think that the most helpful thing
to do on this list is to identify and then try to make clear the general
principles that govern playing.

Then further, we can do what you just did -- ie, suggest a way or ways
to embody one or other of these general principles, always in a
non-dogmatic and experimental frame of mind.

Because people have different ways of approaching these general
problems.

But it helps to understand them first.

Tony
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