Klarinet Archive - Posting 000385.txt from 2001/06

From: Gavin Rebetzke <GRebetzke@-----.au>
Subj: RE: [kl] Professor Wheeler's fluttertongue
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 23:39:20 -0400

We're doing Bernstein's Westside Story overture at the moment, and it calls
for an altissimo A-flat (four ledger lines above the staff) to be fluttered.
I've never been asked to flutter tongue before. I don't seem to have much
more difficultly fluttering the A-flat than any of the lower notes, which is
all the more remarkable since I couldn't roll my Rs at all when I was
growing up. I flutter with the tip of my tongue. I haven't tried
fluttering with the ulvalar (spelling?) up that high, I think it might be
painful. Please don't ask me to measure my mouth - I don't even know what a
boccal cavity is! ---Gavin.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony@-----.uk]
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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