Klarinet Archive - Posting 001294.txt from 2000/05

From: "Ed & Carol Maurey" <edsshop@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] Otitis and stronger reeds...
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 16:53:24 -0400

Shouryu is right on. Playing the clarinet with too heavy a reed as a means
of breath development is masochistic, unmusical crap. It's like riding a
bicycicle with flat tires: just dumb.

Ed Maurey
----- Original Message -----
From: Spike Spiegel <jnohe@-----.edu>
Subject: Re: [kl] Otitis and stronger reeds...

> 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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