Klarinet Archive - Posting 000774.txt from 2000/06

From: klarANNette h satterfield <klarann@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] On purpose?
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:04:31 -0400

On Mon, 19 Jun 2000 20:39:57 -0700 (PDT) Bilwright@-----.net (William
Wright) writes:
> I'm accustomed to thinking of 'squeaks' as being shrill and ugly.
>Tonight something happened to my embouchure for a few moments, and I
>mistakenly played several of measures of beautifully-toned upper
>register notes (a twelfth too high) without using the register key. I
>believe these notes were on pitch (for the twelfths that they were).

>
>Thanks,
> Bill

Bill,

There are two kinds of squeaks; one where a portion of the reed vibrates
chaotically and makes that squawky squealing sound. The other is the
reed vibrating as a unit the upper overtones.

(I started practicing bass clarinet this am with a mediocre reed that
tends to squeak, so I am speaking from immediate experience %:-). ))

Sounds like you experienced the unified reed version, an upper register
note rather than a squeak.

(Of course, if you got the clarion register without the register key,
your embouchure was probably too closed or tight. Bet you already knew
that!)

> If I had wanted these particular notes, I would've been proud to
>play them. So it made me wonder, can a truly competent player do this
>on purpose? Or was this simply a super-freak accident?

I don't have my soprano clarinets with me today, so i can't try the
experiment and see.
But...
I can't think of a time that i sounded clarion when aiming for low unless
i accedently touched the resgister key.
My view of the embouchure is that is stays stable, and the keys of the
clarinet make the register change.

hmm. It may have been an accident, but it isn't a mistake if you learn
something useful.

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Ann Satterfield--clarinetist and teacher
Adjunct and Instrumental Assistant PCC
Principal clarinet ISO
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