Klarinet Archive - Posting 000391.txt from 2006/08

From: kurtheisig@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] Fwd: pitch centers
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:22:21 -0400

AMEN!

In 5 years of assisting Dr Claude Gordon teach a year long course on proper brass teaching I sure heard a LOT about tongue level.

The first time I saw a film showing tongue level while playing clarient was on 8mm film back in '65. These were moving pictures of a clarinet player's tongue taken with flesh X-RAYS. The clarinet prof said "We don't know why the tongue moves like this when playing, but it does." Back in '38 Irons in 27 Groups of Excercises for Trumpet explained it.

Ridenour mentions it in one of his books.

ATTENTION!!!!!! Do NOT have yourself filmed in front of a flouroscope machine playing!!!!!! Faye Hansen from Weaver State in Idaho did this, as Did Dr Gordon. BOTH DEVELOPED CANCER!!!! That is WAY too much radiation to be exposed to.

Kurt

-----Original Message-----
>From: GrabnerWG@-----.com
>Sent: Aug 29, 2006 12:29 PM
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: [kl] Fwd: pitch centers
>
>For the original poster who had problem with playing flat, I had a student
>last year with this issue--a good musician whose main barrier was matching
>pitch center. I could play her exact set-up (reed, mouthpiece) in tune AND a
>bit sharp. What we found was that she was playing with flat-shape low tongue.
>When she changed to "eeee" (cat hiss) vowel shape, she was in same pitch
>zone with others.
>Ann
>Ann Satterfield
>MM-student, clarinet & saxophone, USouthFlorida
>Adjunct clarinet, Southeastern U
>Adjunct woodwinds, PolkCC
>

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