Klarinet Archive - Posting 000904.txt from 2000/10

From: Charles Schneider <chnani@-----.fr>
Subj: Re: [kl] Saxophonist problems, thanks.
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 03:10:38 -0400

Hello at all of you,

I think you have help me to see more clearly my situation and help me to be
more "peacefull" with my clarinet.

- For me, the sound(s) i can achieve with the B40 is actually the best for me.
But my problem of resistance (and maybe breath) appened since i use the B40
instead of the B45. Reading your advices will help me to deal with all of
that more in confidence.
There are 15 years that i teach saxophone and that i haven't taking real lessons
(every weeks). The way i do act like a real beginner is funny but i think it's
the only way i can act if i want not to miss some important basic rules of the
clarinet playing. And for my teacher it's more confortable if i am not saying
during the lesson : - i know that.

<Most players say:"Do whatever works best for you",

I also have the fault to ask the same questions to lot people,
i like to know the differant point of views about a problem.
I agree: "Do whatever works best for you" is not a answer for me when
somebody ask - what works best for you?
I know that i am "me" and different , etc ;-)

<my clarinet teacher plays professionally on bothclarinet and saxophone.
<She has demonstrated to me several times that there is a difference between
<clarinet and saxophone embouchures, and lip placement/shape is a major part of
<it.

If William Wright have the time (one this days) to tell me more about those
difference between clarinet and saxophone embouchures, it will be great for me.
I can imagine that it's not easy to talk about this subject in a email.

The doublers, i work with, cannot or want not to express by words their
approaches. If i play their clarinets it's more comfortable but my own choice
of material goes in another direction, maybe not a material of doubbler !
The Clarinet was my first instrument when i was a child, it's maybe an
explanation.

But i want not to booring you with all of that !

<There is an article in the Klarinet Archives on breathing which youmay want
to read

I ve got this article in my computer, i will read it carefully.

Thanks a lot again
and now it's time for me to play with my clarinet !

Charles Schneider

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