Klarinet Archive - Posting 000937.txt from 2000/06

From: klarANNette h satterfield <klarann@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] tonguing
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 00:25:25 -0400

I can't wait to use this method!

Simple, elegant.

Last month our choir director/organist used the same L:-) elaborate
equipment to demonstrate what happens to throat when we slump or look
down.

annhall
Ann Satterfield

On Wed, 21 Jun 2000 07:14:26 -0500 Rich Gordley <rgordley@-----.net>
writes:

>I used to teach tonguing this way. I would give the student a straw
>(drinking straw -- the band room being adjacent to the cafeteria made
these
>readily available). Then I would have them blow through it with the
>instruction..just keep blowing. Then I would "articulate" a string of
>rapid "notes" with my finger on the open end of the straw and tell the
>student "now you do that with your tongue at your end of the straw".
Never
>had one who failed to grasp the concept and make the transfer to the
>instrument. The only thing remaining might be some fine tuning of
tongue
>placement.
>
>Rich

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