Klarinet Archive - Posting 000402.txt from 2001/06

From: stewart kiritz <kiritz@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Professor Wheeler's fluttertongue
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 19:42:16 -0400

Removing or trimming the uvula does not affect seem to affect swallowing a
whole lot. If I drink a glass of water very quickly in certain positions I
might get a little water in my nasal cavity, that sort of thing. But
trimming it and working a bit on the palate and deviated septum has reduced
snoring by about 80%, thus making it possible for my wife and me to sleep in
the same bed, so it is worth it.

Stewart

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred" <fred.sheim@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] Professor Wheeler's fluttertongue

> 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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