Klarinet Archive - Posting 001095.txt from 2000/05

From: Don Longacre <nw2v@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] neurology and embouchure
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 12:31:50 -0400

The irrepressable Bill Wright writes:

>.... and while I'm thinking about it, the muscle positions required for
>a clarinet embouchure are almost diametrically opposed to the muscle
>positions of an uncontrived smile. What sort of feedback and mental
>reverberation does this set up in a clarinet player's subconscious?

I have enough problems with my subconscious without having it
reverberate on me. My embouchure is just going to have to
wing it without the Freudian overtones (pun?)

Don Longacre....who
is seriously thinking about switching to trombone..Do they have neuroses?

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