Klarinet Archive - Posting 000176.txt from 2011/06

From: "Vann Turner" <vjoet@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mouthpiece Facings and Breath Span
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:39:07 -0400

Wow! has this thread taken on a life of its own, or what?

Of what value to clarinetists would any such investigation be?

It all stems from a off-the-cuff statement by a respected clarinetist. Will
investigating that statement in any way promote fine musicianship among
clarinetists? I think not. It seems to me the difference in freqency of
breathing (if there is a difference) is performance practice of the time.
What was that play by Shakespeare? Much Ado?

How little we on the list speak about music, and how much about equipment!

Best wishes!
Vann Joe Turner

> Well, you don't know until you've tried, do you? Any experimental model
> has -- of necessity -- to be a constrained and restricted subset of the
> real phenomena of nature. But as a first approximation you can say, "I
> assume that the effect of the embouchure and tongue is negligible and
> the dominant factors are air pressure and volume of air flow."

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