Klarinet Archive - Posting 000096.txt from 2008/09

From: "Forest Aten" <forestaten@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Warm Air / Cold Air
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:06:26 -0400

Keith,

I'm envious. Be sure to post up to the list about all the great things
everyone did while there.

Have fun! Wish I could join you...maybe next year.

Forest

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith [mailto:bowenk@-----.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 2:59 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] Re: Warm Air / Cold Air
>
> As Joe says, we begin on Sunday next and I am so looking forward to it.
> Angela Malsbury (Albion Ensemble, London Mozart Players, prof at Royal
> Academy of Music) is our clarinet and main coach for the week; a wonderful
> player and an equally wonderful person. Yes, Joe and many of our friends
> from Santa Fe are coming. Can't wait!
>
> Keith
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: klarinet-return-94082-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org
> [mailto:klarinet-return-94082-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org] On
> Behalf
> Of Forest Aten
> Sent: 23 September 2008 15:03
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] Re: Warm Air / Cold Air
>
>
> :-) 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
> >
> >
> >
> > Nancy Buckman
> >
> > Orchestra AACC
> >
> > Opera AACC
> >
> > Baltimore Flute Choir
> >
> > Early Music Society of Northern MD
> >
> > eefer@-----.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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