Klarinet Archive - Posting 000045.txt from 2004/11

From: "D. Blumberg" <FilmPromotion@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Does size matter?
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 08:26:49 -0500

Nicholas - there will be big students with small sounds and small
students with big sounds.
I've had little girls who had huge sounds and big guys who I had to
work hard to keep them from closing down their setup or to keep their
wind from being constricted. Experiment with mouthpiece/reed amount in
the mouth, tongue position, constriction of the throat, double lip
embouchure to make sure that they aren't biting, getting a tone on
just the mouthpiece, then adding the barrel and checking the pitch,
and having a decibel meter can come in handy to measure actually what
they are doing sound volume wise and to measure progress.

David Blumberg - my money's on Bush, my heart's on Kerry
http://www.toptempo.com

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"Nicholas Yip" <clarinets21@-----.com>
Subject: RE: [kl] Does size matter?
Message-ID: <BAY24-F8PlrwAnekVgK000020ca@-----.com>

As all is true below, the 2 students are so convinced that because of
their
size, that they cannot produce a forte sound through their horns.

Nicholas Yip
Clarinetist and Music Teacher
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