Klarinet Archive - Posting 000358.txt from 2002/04

From: "Fernando Silveira" <amigo222@-----.br>
Subj: Re: [kl] slaptongue
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 21:07:03 -0400

Hi Karl,
some of my students have tryed to start play slap tongue with suction.
I can say to you that the effect I make is made without suction.
I can play any not without air: just the reed beeting against the
mouthpiece.
I realy don't know if it is possible to make in another way, but if suction
would work, you won't be able to play it together with the air.

All the best

Fernando Silveira

----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subject: RE: [kl] slaptongue

> Ironically, one of the main problems I've noticed in students of mine who
> used anything like "anchor tonguing" was in fact that it was easier for
them
> in careless moments to produce a slap-tongue effect. I'm not sure that the
> bang you get with slap-tonguing comes from the reed hitting the
mouthpiece,
> as Fernando described. I've always thought (with no high technology
imaging
> devices to prove it) that the sound comes from the suction created against
> the reed with the hollow of your tongue that forms if you use the middle
of
> the tongue carelessly. (Or deliberately to create the effect). When the
> suction releases, the "pop" happens.
>
> Karl Krelove
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Audrey Travis [mailto:vsofan@-----.ca]
> > Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 4:50 PM
> > To: klarinet@-----.org
> > Subject: Re: [kl] slaptongue
> >
> >
> > Oh boy! You mean there's actually an advantage to what I do so
> > well and am
> > trying desperately to correct (anchor tongueing)???? Whew!!
> >
> > Audrey
> >
> > Fernando Silveira wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > The slap togue works backwords(?): the part of the tongue that
> > touch the tip
> > > of the reed is the midle. The tip of the tongue should be under
> > the reed,
> > > touching your lips and, the midle of the tongue should touch the reed
> >
> >
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