Klarinet Archive - Posting 000389.txt from 2001/06

From: stewart kiritz <kiritz@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Professor Wheeler's fluttertongue
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 09:43:22 -0400

uvula...mine was removed to eliminate snoring :)

Stewart Kiritz

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gavin Rebetzke" <GRebetzke@-----.au>
Subject: RE: [kl] Professor Wheeler's fluttertongue

> 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]
> Sent: Monday, 11 June 2001 3:17 AM
> 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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