Klarinet Archive - Posting 000191.txt from 2000/08

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Is playing sax detrimental to clarinet playing?
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 06:33:13 -0400

I'm pretty certain practising the *bass* clarinet has a positive effect
on
soprano clarinet playing.
Roger S.

On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Sheryl L. Katz wrote:

> Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 10:25:35 -0700
> From: Sheryl L. Katz <slkatz@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Re: Is playing sax detrimental to clarinet playing?
>
> 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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