Klarinet Archive - Posting 000399.txt from 2006/08

From: kurtheisig@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] Fwd: pitch centers
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:47:49 -0400

Thank you---I have been saying that wrong for a good 25 years!!!

-----Original Message-----
>From: Richard Bush <rbushidioglot@-----.net>
>Sent: Aug 30, 2006 7:10 AM
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] Fwd: pitch centers
>
>Dear Kurt and List,
>
>Faye Hansen was the trumpet (cornet) teacher at Weber College, now
>Weber State University. Weber State is located in Ogden, Utah, which
>is about 45 miles north of Salt Lake City.
>
>Richard Bush
>
>On Aug 30, 2006, at 7:20 AM, kurtheisig@-----.net wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>
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