Klarinet Archive - Posting 000179.txt from 2011/06

From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mouthpiece Facings and Breath Span
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:39:02 -0400

Sorry, Vann, that I've apparently wasted your bandwidth with my idle
curiosity. M. Deplus's comment sparked a lot of tangential associations in
my own mind having to do with recorded and live performances I've heard over
a half-century and I asked a trivial question wondering if anyone had any
ideas or knew of any concrete explanations of what M. Deplus (apparently)
said, since I myself have no direct access to M. Deplus (nor so far to
Jean-Marie Paul).

Although I'm not much ahead of where I started in answering my original
question (in which my interest may well be entirely unique), I have learned
something about Ed Pillinger, a mouthpiece maker about whom I knew nothing a
week ago. For me, that's by itself made the exchange worthwhile. Your
mileage may (apparently does) vary. :-)

Karl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vann Turner [mailto:vjoet@-----.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 7:39 AM
> To: The Klarinet Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [kl] Mouthpiece Facings and Breath Span
>
> 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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