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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2000-10-20 06:10
It is nearly one year since I started trumpet although I do not exercise it dilligently.
Recently,I knew famous tumpet teachers like Friedrich(Germany) and Tibeau(France) instruct their pupil to keep their throat open and glottis working while playing trumpet. Tibeau saids in a master class that lower notes should be felt propelled forward while higher note backward against throat.
There is an instructor who agrees to this theory and gives seminars to wind players. The results are surprising,he says in his homepage. A clarinetist could improve their overall resonance and especially high notes became fuller than he used to emit.
Did anyone on this BBS experience the same thing in clarinet playing:i.e.dramatic improvement applying Bel Canto singing while playing? I am interested.
I also think our national languages' speaking habits may be affecting the way to keep our throat and glottis while playing clarinet or other wind instruments.
Thank you,
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Author: beejay
Date: 2000-10-20 14:01
Hiroshi. I think you are absolutely right about language characteristics affecting the way we play instruments. I have just finished an essay comparing German and French clarinet-playing styles, in which I make the point that language and performance style have certain similarities. Jack Brymer said that the way that the English and the French pronounced the word flute explained a lot about their different approaches to playing style. My teacher is French and I have been playing recently with an Austtian clarinetist, which has made me realize that we have some quite significant differences in approach. Thank goodness, too. Diversity is one of the great things about this instrument. By the way, in surfing the Internet the other day, I came across a picture of a gentleman called Hiroshi playing a bass clarinet. Was that you?.
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2000-10-20 15:26
Hiroshi -
You say "There is an instructor who agrees to this theory and gives seminars to wind players. The results are surprising,he says in his homepage. A clarinetist could improve their overall resonance and especially high notes became fuller than he used to emit."
Don't keep it a mystery! Who is the instructor, and what is his home page address?
Ken Shwa
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Author: beejay
Date: 2000-10-21 01:34
Don,
Sorry, I didn't note it down. It would probably show up if you did a search for Hiroshi in Google or something.
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2000-10-23 04:29
>beejay
I am not him since I have not a bass clarinet.
>homepage
His name is Fujii. He has a homepage but only in Japanese.
Trumpetters try to adopt Yoga and Thai Chi to relax themselves and sing freely as
shown in Monett brass clinic http://www.monette.net/online/mbc2000/virtual.html.
I think Thai Chi may tell almost same thing as Bel Canto.
>language
Yes diversity is a good thing. But Japanese language seems obviously a
handicap to sing Bel Canto. We have to correct intentionaly.
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