Klarinet Archive - Posting 000366.txt from 2001/06

From: Lacy Schroeder <LacyS@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] Professor Wheeler's fluttertongue
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 11:01:38 -0400

Yes, I have this diffuculty also. I can fluttertongue no problem up to the G
on top of the staff, and after that, the pitch is just too awful for me to
stand it. It seems as if the height of my tongue in the back of my mouth to
properly voice the higher notes interferes with my ability to sustain the
flutter action in the higher register. I'm lucky that I haven't run across
anyhting that requires me to flutter any of these higher notes!

Now, fluttertonguing on the bassoon, THAT'S fun!

Lacy S.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony@-----.uk]
> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 12:17 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Professor Wheeler's fluttertongue
>
>
> 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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> interesting
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