Klarinet Archive - Posting 000367.txt from 2001/06

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] Professor Wheeler's fluttertongue
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 11:14:49 -0400

At 06:17 PM 06/10/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>Is there anyone here who finds no problem with playing fluttertongue in
>the high register?

That blasted flutter tongued note for Eb Clarinet in the Ravel Piano
Concerto (or was it left hand? can't remember) has always been a problem
for me.

>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.

Unless a person has a "natural" flutter (front of the tongue), as I do not,
then fluttering often is done with the back of the tongue - subsequently
causing problems with upper range notes that are to be fluttered. It's a
real bummer.

I suspect that you already know this information - I am just passing along
a personal experience!

Best wishes,
Roger Garrett

Roger Garrett
Clarinet Professor
Director, Symphonic Winds
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
Phone: (309) 556-3268
Fax: (309) 556-3121

"A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes
another's."
Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825)

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