Klarinet Archive - Posting 000049.txt from 2008/01

From: "Keith Bowen" <bowenk@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] more legato
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:07:33 -0500

Tony,

>So I sometimes say, do you know that some American teachers approach the
>idea of minimising mouth-resonance (small cavity) by talking about using
>'fast air' -- ie, air that has to go over an arched tongue, which obviously
>gives rise to the same sort of mouth geometry. Or, that they talk about
>having a pointed chin, or double-lip embouchure -- or that they talk about
>backswing in legato, or...you get the idea.

Could you expand on why the need to minimize mouth-resonance (small cavity)?
I had thought that the aim would be to match the resonance of the mouth
(etc) with that of the clarinet note, to maximize the energy transfer to the
clarinet, ie to make the tone sound efficiently. I have zero empirical
evidence for this, however :-).

Keith Bowen

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