Klarinet Archive - Posting 000019.txt from 2000/02

From: "Frederick S. Sterns" <fssterns@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] How DID you learn saxophone
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 13:28:54 -0500

>Here's a new topic. Most clarinetist play saxophone. How did you learn
>sax? Look at a fingering chart and go? sax lessons? read a book? Also how
>long did it take you to feel comfortable on the sax? What was the most
>difficult area? palm keys, low register? middle C? Ready, Set, GO!

...this was many years ago...but I did the *least logical thing*...I went
to the fellow considered the best saxophone teacher in the area. Even in
those *ancient days* he perceived a difference in embouchure and mouthpiece
position for the most efficiency in playing the sax and taught
accordingly...clarinet was my first wind instrument...

...he was also an expert doubler and on those few occasions when I played
the clarinet for him he insisted I "revert" to a clarinet "posture."

...now, howver, when baritone sax is my "main axe" and bass clarinet my
"principal double," I tend to use the same "composite embouchure" for both
instruments...it works! Maybe because I'm using very open mouthpieces,
quite similar in design, with the same strength but diffferent brand
reeds...

...does this add to the confusion? Fred S.

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