Klarinet Archive - Posting 000782.txt from 2001/01

From: stewart kiritz <kiritz@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Hissing air.
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 22:11:43 -0500

From: Stewart Kiritz

The hissing results from fatigue of the muscles supporting your embouchure.
This may be affected by the dental work, or an interaction between the
dental work and the fact that you haven't played for a while. Take it easy
and play in short sessions. Stop when the hissing starts. Resume when your
mouth muscles are not fatigued. Try to firm up the embouchure. Then resume
playing after 10 minutes, 15 minutes, an hour, whatever. Eventually, the
muscles will become strong enough to prevent air from leaking out around the
lips that surround the mouthpiece. Then the hissing will stop. Be patient.
It takes time. It make take a few months before you can play for 30-45
minutes without a break. Or maybe more.

Stewart Kiritz

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Black" <clarinet1@-----.uk>
Subject: [kl] Hissing air.

> Help!
>
> Having stopped playing clarinet when I left school, and just picked it up
> again in the last year or so, I'm still a little out of practice, and the
> embouchure is not what it was. But this evening, I noticed an involuntary
> hissing of air out of the right of my mouth, in between mouthpiece and
lip.
> My sound starts off nice and clean, but after a few seconds this air leak
> starts, and I can't do anything to stop it. It seems/feels like a classic
> case of embouchure fatigue. I'd be the first to admit that my embouchure
is
> not as strong as it could be, and I'm certainly working on it, but I do
not
> remember any time in the last 2-3 months when I had such trouble with air
> leaking.
>
> So, the only thing I can think of which would affect my embouchure control
> which has changed in the past couple of weeks is the dental work I had
> completed yesterday morning. I had two crowns fitted on the upper right of
> my mouth (not the front tooth, but the next 2 along). Has anyone else
> experienced such trouble after dental work? Could it be something to do
with
> the anaesthetic (even though it's 36hours since the treatment)? Could it
be
> that my mouth is not quite used to the shape of the two new "teeth"? Since
> these crowns have a more defined gap between them than the real teeth
which
> they replace I even thought that air was escaping through the gap and
> forcing its way out. But I plugged the gap with cigarette paper and it
made
> no difference.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Ian
>
>
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