Klarinet Archive - Posting 001226.txt from 2000/10

From: "Gregory Smith" <Gregory@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Leg/Bell Symbiosis
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 18:23:46 -0400

If anyone is interested, there is a prior post of mine in the archives =
mentioning Marcellus' practice concerning this subject.

http://www.sneezy.org/Databases/Logs/2000/06/000932.txt=20

Best,

Gregory Smith =20
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From: "Kevin Fay (LCA)" <kevinfay@-----.com>
Subject: [kl] Bell-Leg Symbiosis

> Bill Wright posted:
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> <<< . . . I was instructed not to rest the bell on my leg or the =
chair.>>>
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> Hi Bill --=20
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> I would not look at this as a Universal Truth. There are many
> *exceptionally* fine clarinetists who rest the bell of the horn on =
their leg
> or lap; the late Harold Wright and Elsa Ludwig-Vedehr are two that =
come to
> mind. If that's playing incorrectly, then I aspire to it. I suspect =
that
> the vast majority of people who use a double-lip embouchure rest the =
bell on
> their leg. Most all the ones I know -- plus lots and lots of =
single-lip
> players -- do.
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> <<<And sometimes you do need to play while standing.>>>
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> Again, this isn't necessarily true. Harold Wright refused to play =
standing,
> even concertos. =20
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> <<<If the thumb isn't strong enough to push the mouthpiece up against =
the
> teeth, then perhaps a strap will serve the same purpose?>>>
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> Some folks use straps -- not necessarily beginners, either. I recall =
a
> photograph of Ricardo Morales wearing a neck strap in the Met pit. =
(If this
> is a sign of weakness, I should be so weak.) I do not care for them,
> however, because the angle of the support feels wrong for my =
embouchure.
> Probably all in my head, but much of playing is all in one's head.
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> Kooiman (sp?) makes a couple of odd-looking thumb rests that a lot of =
people
> are using now to take the pressure off the right thumb. I know other
> clarinetists that have used other prostheses to similar effect -- for =
a
> while, our own Sean Osborne had a hard glove-like appliance that =
looked
> really effective. =20
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> kjf
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