Klarinet Archive - Posting 001376.txt from 2000/06

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] Basset embouchure
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 07:20:21 -0400

At 10:08 PM 06/29/2000 -0700, you wrote:
> <><> Roger Garrett wrote
>I don't use a loose embouchure on bass clarinet and certainly not basset
>horn!
>
> Sloppy language on my part. Perhaps "bunched chin and rounder
>embouchure with more mouthpiece in the mouth" is a better description?
> ....but do I understand "certainly not basset horn!" correctly to
>mean that the embouchure and mouthpiece for basset horn are more akin to
>those of A clarinet than to bass clarinet?

Bill,

I use the same embouchure on bass clarinet that I do on clarinet. Same for
basset horn. I never bunch the chin (unless I'm so tired I begin leaking
air.........!).

Sincerely,
Roger Garrett

Roger Garrett
Professor of Clarinet
Director, Symphonic Winds
Advisor, IWU Recording Services
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
(309) 556-3268

A Clarinetist's Revenge is sometimes personified by the following excerpt
from the London Daily News, circa 1926:

"The saxophone is a long metal instrument bent at both ends. It is alleged
to be musical. As regards markings, the creature has a series of tiny taps
stuck upon it, apparently at random. These taps are very sensitive: when
touched they cause the instrument to utter miserable sounds suggesting
untold agony. Sometimes it bursts into tears. At either end there is a
hole. People, sometimes for no reason at all, blow down the small end of
the saxophone which then shrieks and moans."

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