Klarinet Archive - Posting 000886.txt from 1999/12

From: klara <klahall@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] oral cavity
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 20:09:58 -0500

On Sat, 25 Dec 1999 13:18:39 -0600 (CST) "Edwin V. Lacy"
<el2@-----.edu> writes:
>On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Audrey Travis wrote:
>
>> Does the oral cavity's shape and size have anything to do with tone
>> quality - in other words, a factor we cannot control?
>
>The shape and size of the oral cavity has nearly *everything* to do with
>tone quality, but to a degree we can control it. Try it - close your
lips
>and try to make more distance between the upper and lower teeth. You
>just changed the size and shape of the oral cavity.

relativily I have been wondering whether basic oral cavity size is the
factor that affects the distance one can bend pitch from fingered note
(especially in relation to gliss. in Rhap.Blue).

How would one measure oral cavity volume?

just wondering....

annhall

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