Klarinet Archive - Posting 000300.txt from 2005/11

From: "Geoff & Sherryl-Lee Secomb" <gsecomb@-----.au>
Subj: Re: [kl] Cambridge Seminar
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:01:41 -0500

Quite a number of years ago, Australian teacher and player Peter Clinch did
some research in this area. Although I haven't seen it myself, I believe his
research involved x-ray movies being made of his students actually playing,
so that what they were doing with their vocal tracts was visible.

I've often wondered how much our native language and accent contributes to
the sounds we make as wind players, in light of the predisposition to
shaping our vocal tract and oral cavity a particular way from years of
habit. Just a thought..........

Geoff.

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From: "Joseph Wakeling" <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 1:50 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] Cambridge Seminar

> Further to previous comment... after a brief reading, the major flaw that
> I can see in the article is that it doesn't *really* measure what players
> do in terms of changing their vocal tract; it just describes what they
> *say* they do. And to be honest I don't think that's likely to be a very
> good description of what they *actually* are doing.
>
> Potentially an interesting starting point, though.
>
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