Klarinet Archive - Posting 000091.txt from 2004/06

From: Nancy Buckman <eefer@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] glissando help
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 13:17:39 -0400

At 09:53 PM 6/2/2004, you wrote:
>Dear Josh.
>----- My belief is the tongue certain can affect pitch greatly....and so
>can voicing the sound visa a vis through the throat cavity and it's ajacent
>chambers..
>
>. Charles Russo used to tell me a good gliss is one half fingers and the
>other half air column...but this was in relation to the Rhapsody in Blue by
>Gershwin..
>
>
>
>David Dow
>Symphony NB
>
>'There is simply one thing worse than bad taste...NO TASTE'
>-Stanly Hasty to a student

When Anne Lenoir showed me how to do the gliss, she did it without ANY
fingers. I have been practicing all day long and am getting pretty good at
doing this thing with no fingers too. It's a good way to learn to make
some very useful sounds (noises) and to learn to control the airflow
through the clarinet. I found it easiest to gliss down first and then up
after I could control going down really well. I still don't understand why
all this works the way it does, but I will probably be able to figure it
out as I get better at doing the gliss on demand.

Nancy

Nancy Buckman
Principal Clarinet / Orchestra AACC
eefer@-----.net

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