Klarinet Archive - Posting 000031.txt from 2004/06

From: "Josh Gardner" <jtgardner@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] glissando help
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 20:53:24 -0400

Tony Pay wrote:

<I don't know that this explanation is correct. I think it more likely that
it isn't the airspeed, but rather the resonance of the altered cavity behind
the reed that influences the pitch.>

But the tongue position does have an impact on the actual airspeed with all
other thing being equal, correct?

<The difficulty is that if you can already do a glissando, it's easy to
think that you aren't doing anything inside your mouth, and that helpful
suggestions about the embouchure are crucial. That's because your tongue
movements just aren't accessible to you, consciously.>

I agree that tongue positions are difficult to be aware of. With the
exercise that I suggested, awareness is created by consciously altering the
position to manipulate the pitch. Once you are aware of these movements,
they can be used at will for effect. I don't like using suggestions about
the embouchure because the actual physical interface (lips and jaw) do not
need to move in order to manipulate the pitch.

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