Klarinet Archive - Posting 000608.txt from 2003/08

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Tony=20Pay?= <tony_pay@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] RE: Articulation problems
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 09:16:49 -0400

--- Ormondtoby Montoya <ormondtoby@-----.net> wrote:

> Re: [kl] RE: Articulation problems
>
> Ed Lacy wrote:
>
> > One of the problems is our usual tendency to describe the action of
> > articulation as "hitting."  The tongue doesn't "hit the reed."  The
> > tongue acts as a valve.
>
> Welcome back, Ed.
>
> Do you think that the word "valve" may tempt a student in the wrong
> direction also? Namely, it hints that starting / stopping the air flow
> is the primary goal, which may equate in the student's mind to shoving
> the reed against the facing?

Indeed. Hence the 'pendulum' metaphor, which identifies the purpose of the
tongue as the stopping of reed vibration, and incidentally introduces the idea
of experimenting to find the required degree of tongue action in different
registers.

Tony

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