Klarinet Archive - Posting 000197.txt from 2001/10

From: "Roxy" <roxy@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] R: [kl] mouthpiece..
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 16:31:06 -0400

Why you don't use the cristall becs for clarinet?? Bye
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From: jess crawford <akane12@-----.net>
Subject: [kl] flutter tonguing

> Hello all--
> I'm a junior college student preparing for a spring clarinet recital. I
> would like very much to do Alban Berg's Vier Stucke, which my clarinet
> professor brought to me last year as a proposal. Unfortunately, while I
can
> roll my R's as well as the next guy, I simply can't flutter tongue. Some
> people have suggested rolling at the back of the tongue instead of the
> front-- I have a much more difficult time doing that motion WITHOUT a
> mouthpiece in my mouth, and in my opinion the sound isn't quite as
striking.
> Does anyone have any advice on alternate methods of learning this skill? I
> can't play the Berg without it.
>
> thanks :)
>
> * jess crawford
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> * jess's webpage: http://somethingsbegun.com/wicked
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