Klarinet Archive - Posting 000791.txt from 2001/01

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Hissing Air
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 07:22:47 -0500

At 11:55 AM 1/24/2001 +0000, ian_s_black wrote:
>Sorry, I maybe didn't make it clear enough in my original post. I have been
>practicing with some degree of regularity for the past year or so, in sessions
>of anything between 45mins and 90mins. This was the first time I have had the
>trouble with the embouchure leak which seems to me to be the same as
>embouchure
>fatigue. I'm just puzzled that it should start now, and not months ago when I
>started practicing again. So there must be another factor besides being out of
>practice. It's the same mouthpiece that I've been using for 4-5 months now and
>the same reed that I've been using for the past few weeks. That's why I
>thought
>it must have something to do with the dental treatment.

It could be that the new dental work is relatively slippery and your lip is
moving against it. Or possibly that the air is now leaking through between
the teeth where it did not before. In either case, you should be able to
eventually make adjustments to compensate, even if that means a different
reed or something, at least for a while, while you get used to the new
teeth. It might even be caused by residual numbness in the area of the
dental work? (Just a pure hunch.) That might be a greater problem unless
it subsides on its own.

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.com
451 Old Orchard Drive http://homepages.go.com/~zoot14/zoot14.html
Essexville, MI 48732 ICQ UIN 4862265

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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