Klarinet Archive - Posting 000524.txt from 2003/12

From: "Don Yungkurth" <chalumeau@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Re: Undertone
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:53:40 -0500

marywlee@-----.com said:

> May I ask how to get rid of the undertone? Is it mainly because of the
> reed or the posture of the embouchure? It's hard to explain to young
>players.

Tony Pay, Tony@-----.demon.co.uk, replied, in part:

>>Mainly embouchure; and to a lesser extent probably, tongue position. (A
>>bad reed doesn't help, of course:-)

>>Just to be clear: you're talking about the unwanted subtone you sometimes
>>get in the high clarinet register, A, Bb, B and C, right?

Another possibility which has been mentioned on "Klarinet" in the past is
that undertones can sometimes be minimized or eliminated by reducing the
space between the open register key pad and the tone hole. This should be
no more than 1/16 inch (about 1.5 mm) according to previous suggestions.
This has worked for me - I don't normally have the undertone problem and
reducing the register key travel eliminated the problem on a "new" clarinet.

Don Yungkurth

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