Klarinet Archive - Posting 000298.txt from 2010/11

From: Jennifer Jones <helen.jennifer@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] RES: RES: Orchestral Pitch
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 02:44:58 -0500

OOPS! I guess if it is ordinary super glue, then it is probably not UV-set.

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Jennifer Jones
<helen.jennifer@-----.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:51 PM, =A0<kurtheisig@-----.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hmmm---try closing the register key down with a thicker cork. That is ea=
sy to change back and forth.
>>
>> I use slices of wine cork and brush on Loctite cyano acrylate glue. (sup=
er glue---but BRUSH ON---if it gets on plastic, it can cause it to crack.)
>>
>
> Is this Loctite, a UV setting epoxy? =A0I used something by that name to
> mount fossil wood specimens on slides for thin sectioning and looking
> at the cells inside using the microscope.
>
>
>
>> Sharp. Does it have a peg?
>>
>> Clarinet should be played sitting right up on the front edge of the chai=
r. Bonade used to say thumbs on the shirt buttons, so in VERY close to the =
body. My professor, Clem Hutchinson, Arey's top student, taught me that. (1=
/2 way up the thigh for short people like me---further for tall people.)
>>
>> I show students that there is a "sweet spot". Sit up front straight up a=
nd lean forward from the HIPS, like you are hinged. At about 5 degrees, if =
you keep the clarinet in tight, you can hear the tone get radically better.=
(assuming thumbs at about the shirt buttons and corners of the mouth in to=
wards the mthpc, and jaw down--as taught by Bill Stubbins at Michigan, Ann =
Arbor and the great oboist Steve Adelstein.)
>>
>> THEN, with the bass make sure that the peg is DIRECTLY under your tail b=
one on the floor with you leaning forward as with the Bb.
>>
>> This really improves bass playing. Clem Hutchinson, my prof, is the one =
that got Selmer to put a re-curve on their bass clarinet necks. This does t=
he same thing, with less awkwardness. I created this position to approximat=
e what he got form the re-curve. Again, lean forward slightly too.
>>
>> Proper length of reed--ie correcting the length of the profile up to the=
bark, helps too.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>>From: Rachel Roessel <gsurosey@-----.com>
>>>Sent: Nov 16, 2010 9:59 PM
>>>To: The Klarinet Mailing List <klarinet@-----.com>
>>>Subject: Re: [kl] RES: RES: Orchestral Pitch
>>>
>>>> Make sure the A and Ab keys are opening sufficiently, and also =A0the
>>>
>>>> Bb/register key. =A0The register mechanism on bass clarinets is =A0not=
oriously
>>>> unreliable, and is involved in the throat Bb.
>>>
>>>Even before looking at a tuner to see how wide the interval is, going fr=
om
>>>throat A to throat Bb is audibly a much bigger jump than it should be. T=
he Bb is
>>>the major problem. The horn overall runs sharp (so a lot of that may jus=
t be
>>>me), but that's an especially bad note. I've noticed that on other basse=
s I've
>>>played, but not as bad as this one is.
>>>
>>>Rachel
> Thin section:
> A rock sample that is thin enough for light to shine through.
> www.fossweb.com/CA/modules3-6/SolidEarth/vocab.html
>
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