Klarinet Archive - Posting 000477.txt from 2000/05
From: Topper <leo_g@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: The perfect Clarinet embouchure
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 12:32:34 -0400
At 11:38 AM -0400 5/8/00, BEresman@-----.com wrote:
>When i went back to private lessons after a 15 year hiatus i went to
>Carmine Campione who was at the time in the Cincinnnati Symphony. He
>changed my embouchure entirely and started me on a double-lip embouchure.
>He maintains that it is harder to form a double-lip embouchure wrong and so
>it is a useful tool for teaching correct embouchure. Many of his students
>go then to a single-lip embouchure, maintaining every other aspect of the
>double-lip. I have stayed with double-lip, and have had no trouble with
>endurance. Granted, playing while standing for long periods becomes more
>interesting, but i don't usually have that concern. I even use double-lip
>on the Eb clarinet--though i have to rest the bell on the case on my lap if
>i play for long.
>
>Brent Eresman
>YSI Precision Temperature
My reason for taking up the Bassoon while at xxxxxx College of Music. What
I also did was get into the physiology of the facial muscles. Tear down mt
Sax Embochure and elabrate on my clarinet embochure - taking it out of the
rhelm of clarinet. I took up the trumpet also. The result was that I got a
competative (conservatory student) sound on a cheap bassoon, surpassed the
tone and flexibility of the sax guru, my teacher, and my bass clarinet
playing went up an octave and a half. My clarinet teacher would have
nothing to do with it so I dumped him and changed my majors. The price
for me was to give up the soprano clarinet (and with that my place in the
orchestra) and supplant that range with the bass, and focusing on the
soprano sax. What I gained on bass was having absolutely no need and being
uneffected by having a double octave key or not and being able to change
the tibre of the uppers to that of a soprano clarinet. In addition I can
get a good flute sound on the soprano sax as well as something close to an
oboe falsetto or clarinet-like tones on soprano sax, depending of course on
the set-up and in some cases the sax.
What I attribute all of it to is total isolation and control of the muscles
of the face tongue and throat. The muscles which control the lips are only
part of the connectivity. Everything must work as one but to do this all
must be isolated and identified as to their role with one another; what,
where. why, if, and when and how.
Some of the better things I discoverd were that conservatory oboe and
bassoon literature as well as mechanical sax excercises work well on the
clarinet especially when doing them in intervals by the use of the C cleff
in one's head.
What I ultimately discovered is that sax ergonomics will always beat the
clarinet set-up unless someone redesigns the keys; oboe is kinetic
nightmare; and bassoon will improve not only your clarinet mechanics but
those of your clarinet.
If the clarinet was done evoling the keywork there would be no need for a
Clarinet in A aside from the work needed by basset clar.
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