Klarinet Archive - Posting 000165.txt from 2000/08

From: "Sheryl L. Katz" <slkatz@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Is playing sax detrimental to clarinet playing?
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 13:25:40 -0400

I'm neither a particularly good clarinet player nor sax player, but when I
started to practice sax a lot I found that almost everything I did was
directly applicable to clarinet and my clarinet playing improved
considerably as a result of practicing the sax. The sax embouchure is
slightly different from clarinet, but practicing the sax strengthened my lip
overall, gave me more endurance and made me more aware of using my lip and
adjusting my lip for changes in pitch and tone.

The only negative was that I sometimes lapse into clarinet fingerings on the
sax and sax fingerings on the clarinet.

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