Klarinet Archive - Posting 001057.txt from 2002/11

From: "fred.sheim" <fred.sheim@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Introducing tonguing - was "teaching clarinet"
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 13:14:02 -0500

You mean that you feel that you have to be considered the authority by
everyone?

Fred

At 01:11 PM 11/29/02, you wrote:
>Yeah, ok man...........
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>Now I know why I don't post on this list.
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>Bill Wright wrote:
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>> <><> Eric Dannewitz wrote:
>>meaning the tongue comes up on the reed and presses it closed.
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>>...well, since we can't hear you play or see inside your mouth, we have
>>no way of knowing whether you are actually doing this, or perhaps you
>>are only imagining (creating the image in your mind) that you are doing
>>it. Any dentist will tell you that people seldom know what their
>>tongues are actually doing.
>>
>>However, tonguing hard enough to actually close the reed will produce
>>sounds that are considered 'ugly' in most situations.
>>
>>.....and once again, using a nozzle metaphor is likely to encourage a
>>student to lean in the unwanted direction of heavy tonguing.
>>
>>Regards,
>> Bill
>>
>>
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>Eric Dannewitz - Adventurer, saxophonist, good-timer (crook? quite
>possibly), clarinetist, manic self-publicist, part-time
>flautist(flutist?), macintosher, and often thought to be completely out
>to lunch. http://www.jazz-sax.com
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