Klarinet Archive - Posting 000978.txt from 2000/11

From: "Charles Schneider" <chnani@-----.fr>
Subj: Re: [kl] Article: Breathing and Support
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 04:34:58 -0500

Subject: Re: [kl] Article: Breathing and Support

> --- Charles Schneider <chnani@-----.fr> wrote:
> > Bonsoir,
> >
> > did you know this article about "larynx and woodwind's players" :
> > http://www02.so-net.ne.jp/%7Es-mukai/English/Blow.html
> >
> > i don't know if it is a well known publication.
>
> Wow Charles, thanks. Fascinating article -- I've added it to my
> personal archives for reference.
>
> -- Neil
>

Bonjour,
a trombone student of mine, (i teach mostly "jazz" improvisation)
gave me the "Philip Farkas book : L'art de jouer les cuivres"
http://www.windsongpress.com/
He said to me that Farkas explain exactly an opposite theory,
i've read the book and as matter of fact Farkas speaks about
the "larynx's work" the same way than this Japonese doctor.
http://www02.so-net.ne.jp/%7Es-mukai/English/Blow.html

I've just (re)began clarinet a few mounths ago and
i was saying to my teacher (and to you) that i had
lot of breathing problems with my clarinet.
I was always saying :
- I don't SING ! I AM LISTENING to my bad
intonation (really too low for my hears, bad sound),
i became a SPECTATOR, an ANALYST of this desaster!

It was not (only) a diaphragm/abdominal trouble, i was not
singing the "same way" than with my saxophone.
I was to much stressed under many other technical problems.

On my saxophone i have made the Rasher and Allard works
on "harmonics" , it helps me a lot to feel more freedom
for the projection of the sound, colors, intonation, etc.
But i don't remember if Allard had talking about "larynx" :-(

I like very much to have YOUR ADVICES on this "Japonese"
point of wiews because for me it became an "evidence".
But "evidences" are always hazardous, no?

Thanks to the list.

Charles Schneider
chnani@-----.fr
http://perso.club-internet.fr/chnani

Page Souffleurs: (EJMAWoodwind's page)
http://perso.club-internet.fr/chnani/ejma.html

"Une anche n'est jamais si bonne ou si mauvaise que l'on croit."
Panda Chnarles.

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