Klarinet Archive - Posting 000409.txt from 2001/12

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Exercises for Tongue Position?
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 20:36:55 -0500

On Sat, 15 Dec 2001 22:33:14 GMT, I said:

> On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 19:31:35 -0500, syo@-----.com said:
>
> > The exercise I myself practice is to start from C (above the staff)
> > and descend chromatically with the following routine: Play the note
> > normally, drop the jaw and tongue, then raise only the tongue to
> > bring the note into tune. This ensures the bottom teeth aren't
> > biting to raise the pitch, and it is easy to verify since any
> > movement other than in the tongue would be external.
>
> Would you expand your explanation of this exercise, Mike?

OK, would you expand your instruction:

> drop the jaw and tongue

...because I don't know what to do in order to do this.

It's not that I don't believe you -- it's that I don't myself have a
physicical intuition of a movement that, under that description, helps
me as an exercise.

If you explain further, I might understand.

Tony
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