Klarinet Archive - Posting 000393.txt from 2001/06

From: Fred <fred.sheim@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Professor Wheeler's fluttertongue
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 13:27:32 -0400

Doesn't that eliminate SWALLOWING too?

Fred

At 06:43 AM 6/12/01 -0700, you wrote:
>uvula...mine was removed to eliminate snoring :)
>
>Stewart Kiritz
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Gavin Rebetzke" <GRebetzke@-----.au>
>To: <klarinet@-----.org>
>Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 8:39 PM
>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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>> ... Could you continue your petty bickering? I find it most interesting
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