Klarinet Archive - Posting 000114.txt from 2003/10

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Tongue movements -- another go
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 11:35:46 -0400

Tony,

The one thing I *don't* find when I try this experiment is that I can do the
repeated movement needed to articulate on a clarinet any faster than I can
reliably do it with a mouthpiece in my mouth. My tongue does a remarkable
job of darting this way and that to do the sub-vocal speech, but when I try
to articulate a musical passage away from the clarinet, using only tongue
movement with or w/o a mental image of the fingerings, I don't find I am
able to do it noticeably faster than I can when I'm actually playing the
instrument. Do you feel a difference if you do the experiment with music
excerpts?

Karl Krelove

>
> Tony Pay wrote:
>
> >>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 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!
> >>
> >>
> >...some of the things that it may be helpful to
> >notice, lie among the things that we actually *don't* notice.
> So, just upping our level of awareness may help.
> >

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