Klarinet Archive - Posting 000286.txt from 2001/09

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Long tone discussion again
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 10:51:28 -0400

As another point of interest:

"Do you have any long tone exercises that you use with your students?"

"I don't as such. Again, I'm talking about very proficient students. But I
can well remember the very first thing I ever did for my teacher Mr. Handlon
in Minneapolis, who was such a serious teacher, was simply to play a low "E"
with the metronome on 60 and hold it for ten beats, then without moving
anything, especially the wind, to push the register key to sustain middle
"B" for another eight beats or so, and diminuendo, then low "F" and that
sort of thing. I certainly applaud that at a certain time in the development
of the clarinetist."

James Gholson interviewing Robert Marcellus, Australian Clarinet and
Saxophone Magazine, March 1999, available at
http://www.clarinet-saxophone.asn.au/index_articles.htm

Mark C.

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