Klarinet Archive - Posting 000121.txt from 2008/04

From: Gary Van Cott <gary@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Question about a problem
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:06:26 -0400

What about him trying another mouthpiece? The only time I ever had a
consistent chirping problem (it was on saxophone) it was the mouthpiece.

Gary
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Gary Truesdail wrote:
> In all my 20 years of professional playing and another 27 years of pro-bono
> fun playing I have run into a problem I have never before encountered. I'm
> hoping someone can give me some help.
>
> A year ago I started giving clarinet lessons to a high school junior -
> bright lad that wants to be an engineer and attend Cal-Poly. Recently he
> developed this problem.
>
> Problem: When playing above the staff he very frequently "chirps" most of
> the notes. Not quite an out of control squeak, but a "chirp". The reed
> looks and plays balanced side to side, changing reeds does not help,
> mouthpiece and reed combo works fine for me and I cannot duplicate the
> problem on his equipment. We have done throat exercises, vibrato exercises,
> more mouthpiece, less mouthpiece. The mouthpiece does not wiggle when I try
> to move it when he is playing and his teeth are not on the reed and we've
> tried pointing the chin, bunching the chin, thicker lip in contact with the
> reed, thin lip in contact with the reed.
>
> Don't know what to do at this point. Could it be support? It looks fine
> here but it is hard to tell visually.
>
> Gary Truesdail
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