Klarinet Archive - Posting 001253.txt from 2000/10

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bell-Leg Symbiosis
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 07:24:24 -0400

In message <df.b82f504.27296451@-----.org writes:
>
> Bill Wright wrote,
> > . . . I was instructed not to rest the bell on my leg or the chair.>
>
> Kevin Fay wrote,
> >>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.
>
> One thing players need to beware of, though, is that for some people, resting
> the bell on the leg may mean slouching over into bad posture that compresses
> the lungs or prevents proper breathing from the diaphragm. I rested the bell
> on my knee until high school, then unlearned that habit because (although I'm
> too short to slouch in that position) my leg obstructed the bell opening
> enough to lower the pitch of clarion B and chalumeau E.
>
> Lelia
>
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Leila - this is exactly why I don't do it. I'm just a bit too tall to
be able to breathe well with the bell on my knee - even with an A clarinet.
Roger S.

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