Klarinet Archive - Posting 000017.txt from 2011/06

From: "Keith Bowen" <keith.bowen@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Eb clarinet and biting ?
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 07:53:53 -0400

I too would be interested. The last time I played Shos 5, I tell the
conductor at the afternoon rehearsal, for the last page: "You can have it
now or you can have it tonight" ! find it needs a thin under lip and a firm
pressure, pretty much indistinguishable from biting ....

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: Randolf Keller [mailto:randolfkeller@-----.com]
Sent: 03 June 2011 12:36
To: klarinet@-----.com
Subject: [kl] Eb clarinet and biting ?

A question to the Eb players on this list :

Not talking about the lower and middle registers - I have no issue with
biting in these areas.
But is it actually possible to play in the upper registers which are so
common for Eb clarinet in the more modern orchestra literature, without
biting ?
(and while trying to remain in tune...)

Let's say Shostakovich, 5th Symphony,

2nd mvt., passage from No. 69 or

4th mvt., from No. 100

or surely towards the end from No. 131.

Another passage is Ravel, Daphnis et Chloe, No. 94 onwards.

As much as I try to relax embouchure there, but in order to keep the pitch,
I do not really see a way other than "strenghten" the embouchure to an
extend that I would call "biting" with my Bb or A.

I would be interested to hear the experiences of other players with these
higher passages.

/Randolf
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