Klarinet Archive - Posting 000573.txt from 2003/08

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Tony=20Pay?= <tony_pay@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Articulation Problems
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 06:24:35 -0400

--- Anne Lenoir <AnneLenoir@-----.net> wrote:

> Dear Howard, David and Mary,
>
> I personally suggested "Du-du-du-du-du" pronounced "do", because I
> hear many people hitting the reed too hard and sounding like "tphew". I
> like to hear a nice, relaxed legato at first. ANNIE

I think you're better off thinking of it round the other way, as in

"mud-ud-ud-ud"

I wrote quite a long post about articulation, explaining this viewpoint, at

http://www.woodwind.org/Databases/Logs/1999/09/000395.txt

You might find it helps. (It starts with a bit of a philosophical discussion
about what I call 'playing metaphors', because it was pulled out of another
piece of writing, but don't let that put you off.)

Tony

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