Klarinet Archive - Posting 000115.txt from 2005/07

From: ormo2ndtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] If you ever wondered how to play a Didgeridoo....
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 21:13:51 -0400

David Blumberg wrote:

>
http://reuters.excite.com/article/20050707/2005-07-07T141249Z_01_N07301597_RTRIDST_0_ODD-SCIENCE-DIDGERIDOO-DC.html

Hey. Just a day or two ago I suggested (partly in humor) that sword
swallowing and hot dog swallowing could be useful disciplines for
clarinetists --- even though the glottis's primary function is to divert
flow from lungs to stomach, or vice versa.

Now David has come up with a science-based article which relates the
glottis directly to a woodwind's tone. It's just that (according to
this article) _closing_ the glottal opening, rather than opening it,
produces the tone which knowledgable didgeridoo players allegedly
prefer.

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