Klarinet Archive - Posting 000354.txt from 2001/06

From: David Glenn <notestaff@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] Professor Wheeler's fluttertongue
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:09:35 -0400

Tony Pay wrote:

> Is there anyone here who finds no problem with playing fluttertongue in
> the high register?
>
> The reason I ask is that I have always had a difficulty with this, and
> quite a few other players of my acquaintance have the same problem. The
> recent discussion of Wheeler's discovery of the correlation between the
> position of the back of the tongue and the register being played made me
> wonder whether the difficulty arises when the flutter can't be combined
> with a sufficiently low position of the back of the tongue.
>
> It would be interesting to know whether those who have no trouble have a
> particular tongue/mouth configuration. (My guess is that they'd have a
> relatively large boccal cavity, perhaps coupled with a shortish tongue.)
>
> Anyone?
>
> Tony
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>

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Tony,

Which kind of flutter tongue do you mean?

I can do the kind with the back of the tongue (gargle style) up into the
altissimo but the kind with rolled "r" works only up to around A or B above
the staff - unless I sound the note first and then start the flutter. Does
that correspond with your experience?

David

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