Klarinet Archive - Posting 000359.txt from 2001/06

From: Floyd Williams <f.williams@-----.au>
Subj: Re: [kl] Professor Wheeler's fluttertongue
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 23:37:26 -0400

Tony,
I can fluttertongue ok up to g''',but higher is distinctly more
difficult.And it seemed harder to do an uvula flutter in that
register.Also,the flutter effect seems to become less and less as I go
higher.I can hear through bone conduction more and more of the rolled
r,but not as much interuption of the tone.

Floyd Williams

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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Floyd Williams
Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University
Brisbane, Qld. AUSTRALIA

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