Klarinet Archive - Posting 000601.txt from 2000/12

From: Floyd Williams <f.williams@-----.au>
Subj: Re: [kl] Reed uppermost
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 19:32:16 -0500

I think that Michael Bryant's taste in magazine's is excellent.

Floyd Williams
Editor,Australian Clarinet and Saxophone
www.infinitearts.com.au/qcass

Tony Pay wrote:
>
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 14:04:06 -0000, michael@-----.uk said:
>
> > All is revealed in Ingrid Pearson's exhaustive and thoroughly
> > researched paper on the reed uppermost in the June 1999 issue of the
> > Australian Clarinet and Saxophone Magazine.
>
> That's a convenient place for it. (Apologies to our friends 'down
> under':-) Do you get *all* the magazines from *everywhere*, Mike?
>
> In fact we (my clarinet class in Italy) located for Ingrid an exponent
> of reed-uppermost playing in Milan: a retired ex-member of an Italian
> orchestra; and she came and heard him there. (We were all going to meet
> up in Biella, but for some reason it was inconvenient for him to come
> there at the last moment.) She probably says in her paper that she
> thought he played the Eb clarinet, his speciality, very well -- better,
> he maintained, even with regard to articulation, than he could do with
> reed downward. Unfortunately, I didn't hear him myself.
>
> I've always been a bit negative about the idea of experimenting playing
> with reed uppermost, though some people say we should if we're going to
> take the recreation of period practice seriously. This is probably
> because I have a shortish upper lip, and would have been thrown out of
> the pool of possible clarinet players very early in a reed-uppermost
> culture.
>
> I don't personally think that it's an interesting enough problem that
> overcoming it would yield any great musical insight, anyway, but perhaps
> I'm biased.
>
> I wonder if they had experts who told them that they should play with
> flat noses?
>
> Tony
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Floyd Williams
Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University
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