Klarinet Archive - Posting 000084.txt from 2008/09

From: "Forest Aten" <forestaten@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Warm Air / Cold Air
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:02:38 -0400

:-) Great...there you go again....taking the voo & doo out of voodoo.....

How did Kammermusik England go? For the list: Keith and Kammermusik/Santa Fe
sponsored a new and exciting version of the Kammermusik Workshops in England
this month.

Forest

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith [mailto:bowenk@-----.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 2:14 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] Re: Warm Air / Cold Air
>
> Nancy
>
> I don't think there is a scientifically rational explanation. I think it
> is a metaphor that someone has got from their teacher and has taken it as
> gospel. When used 'scientifically' it is b/s.
>
> All one can control on the mouthpiece is pressure - how hard you blow. You
> can change the resistance inside your mouth, but then that just changes
> the pressure at the mouthpiece. That will result in different speeds of
> airflow through the recorder, which of course you indeed use differently
> for different registers. The temperature of the air may vary very
> slightly, but as you say it is not under your control. A fast airstream
> may feel a little cooler in your mouth since it may chill your mouth by
> evaporation of moisture, extracting latent heat (like a swamp cooler).
> Speed of airflow certainly has an effect on the recorder 'whistle'.
>
> On the clarinet, you can also change the opening of the reed by the
> pressure of your embouchure, and this will also affect the airspeed, but
> not on the recorder.
>
> In my never-humble opinion, it is simpler and more accurate to say 'blow
> harder or less hard', but this sounds prosaic, and less as if it is
> received wisdom from A Great Teacher.
>
> I am prepared to be argued out of this view but the arguments has better
> be good :). I loathe bad science.
>
> Keith Bowen
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: klarinet-return-94069-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org
> [mailto:klarinet-return-94069-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org] On
> Behalf Of Nancy Buckman
> Sent: 23 September 2008 05:27
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Re: Warm Air / Cold Air
>
> Today in my copy of "American Recorder" was a "scholarly" description of
> using warm
>
> air to create the best tone for low notes, medium air for the middle
> notes, and
>
> cool air for the high notes. Would the collective wisdom of the list care
> to
>
> comment on this? I fail to see how an individual can effect change in the
>
> temperature of exhaled air at will. Someone please enlighten me with
>
> a "reasonable" explanation.
>
>
>
> Nancy
>
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> Nancy Buckman
>
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