Klarinet Archive - Posting 001286.txt from 2000/05

From: Spike Spiegel <jnohe@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Otitis and stronger reeds...
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 14:41:43 -0400

On Tue, 30 May 2000, Andrea Bergamin wrote:

> What's the best solution in reeds hardness if you want to develop or improve
> your breathing?
>
> Someone says that you should use stronger reeds because breathing is a
> "muscular" process and someone says you should use softer reeds to learn to
> use as well as possible your breathing in every condition.

Heh...you're using your reeds for the wrong reason as far as I'm
concerned...You should use the reed strength and brand that gives you the
most consistent good sound that you desire; THAT and that alone should be
your deciding factor in reed choice.

If you want to develop breath support, do breathing excercises. The
excersizes by tubist Arnold Jacobs are excellent and worth looking into,
as are any excersizes that increase lung capacity (such as you might find
in books concerning diving). Then you simply practice emptying your now
over-capacity lungs as quickly as possible while saying shhh.

At least, that's what I think. Again...always take me with some salt.

J. Shouryu Nohe
http://web.nmsu.edu/~jnohe
Professor of SCSM102, New Mexico State Univ.
"I don't know, and I don't have an opinion." - Jet Black

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