Klarinet Archive - Posting 000046.txt from 2003/10

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: [kl] Tongue movements
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 02:45:25 -0400

I don't know whether this is at all useful, but I found it interesting,
and had never noticed it properly before.

Lying awake early this morning, I found myself rehearsing a little
speech I have to make soon. I was actually whispering it to myself; but
then I saw that I didn't need to use any air -- I could just make the
mouth shapes.

Then, I realised that, like a ventriloquist, I didn't need to move my
lips or jaw either.

That left only the movement of my tongue.

I'd never observed this in isolation before. But I found that when you
strip away everything else, you experience very clearly that the
movement of your tongue in speech is amazingly fast, unconscious and
subtle. Try it!

So then, of course, I wondered what would happen if I imagined playing
various passages on the clarinet.

!

Tony
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