Klarinet Archive - Posting 000071.txt from 2008/01

From: "Keith Bowen" <bowenk@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] warm-cool/fast-slow
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:49:54 -0500

Well, you do blow harder to make it loud! But how did you say you make the
air from your lungs colder?

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: klarinet-return-92484-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org
[mailto:klarinet-return-92484-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org] On Behalf
Of sarah elbaz
Sent: 06 January 2008 06:14
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] warm-cool/fast-slow

Eli Eban is talking alot about warm and cold air and air speed.
solw and warm for p and fast and cold for f. He was here last week and that
was
one of the main things that he talked about.
Sarah

> -------Original Message-------
> From: Karl Krelove <karlkrelove@-----.net>
> Subject: RE: [kl] warm-cool/fast-slow
> Sent: 06 Jan '08 01:24
>
> I studied as a teenager and young adult with several excellent players
(some
> of whom were also good teachers). All but one had been taught either by
> Bonade or by Anthony Gigliotti, who himself was a student of Bonade at
> Curtis Institute (the one exception had been a student of Lucien
Caillet).
> Three, including Gigliotti, were members of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
I've
> played clarinet in the Philadelphia area at one time or another with all
the
> local players. To tell the truth, the only place *I've* ever heard the
ideas
> of either fast/slow or warm/cold air is Klarinet. So I'm not sure that
this
> idea is even so much an American concept as it is a part of the litany of
a
> particular teaching lineage whose originator happened to have taught here
> rather than somewhere else. I think, incidentally, that I've read the
terms
> occasionally in articles by brass players. For what little it's worth,
the
> first I ever heard of the idea of arching the tongue to create a "faster"
> airstream (to make producing high notes more reliable) was during one of
my
> son's trumpet lessons 10 or 11 years ago.
>
> Karl
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Bowen [mailto:bowenk@-----.com]
> Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 4:46 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] more legato
>
>
> >>I can't imagine a precise definition, one that doesn't depend on
metaphor,
>
>
> Lelia,
>
> I think this (metaphor) is the precise problem in communication. I have
> never met the airspeed stuff in European clarinet teaching; not to say it
> doesn't exist in pedagogy here, but I have personally only ever come
across
> it in this list.
>
>
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