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Author: Kimbo
Date: 1999-07-10 09:38
hey guys i was thinking about getting my toung pierced but i dont know how it will affect my playing and how long until i can play and i was wonder if any one has a toung pierce and knows an answer for my
thanx alot
~kim
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Author: mike
Date: 1999-07-10 12:24
I really do not see where it will help, accually I thing it would be a detriment to your playing....no medical fact just a feasability study.....if you do go ahaead with it, let us know, but I wouldn't.....
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Author: paul
Date: 1999-07-10 13:18
I believe that tounge piercing and clarinet playing are on two completely different ends of the spectrum. I just cannot see how anyone who gets their tounge pierced will be able to play a clarinet and form a good embouchure (from the inside of the mouth on out), have good playing tone, and have the ability to tounge any notes. I'm a classic conservative from "the old school". So, if you get your tounge pierced and you can still play the clarinet very well with a dead weight hanging from your tounge, you will have taught this old dog a new trick. Just don't look for me to do it myself.
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Author: Laura
Date: 1999-07-10 13:52
I haven't got my tongue pierced myself, but my friend has. She is a singer (soprano) and found that she had to take it out to sing, as it disturbs the air flow, and just kinda got in the way! I would think that, therefore, it will have a negative effect on your clarinet playing, as the tongue is pretty vital most of the time!
Of course, you could take it out to play, but that means ALWAYS remebering to do this, and to wash your hands before, and disinfecting the ring before you put it back in, and actually, probably not being able to play for about a month... my friend had to keep it in for 4 weeks so it could heal, and couldn't eat anything but soup! Also its very painful... my advice is don't if you're serious about playing!
However, if you decide to go ahead, good luck to you, and let me know how it goes!
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Laura
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Author: jim lande@erols.com
Date: 1999-07-11 03:23
A nipple ring, instead. This actually could be good for your clarinet playing. There has been a lot of discussion about thumb pain and neck straps and how some band directors don't like the look. Hitching the strap to the nipple ring would be much less obvious (from where the audience sits.) A navel ring would work if you played alto or bass.
If you go ahead with the tongue piercing, I would suggest a round stud rather than a ring and get it on the center of your tongue, close to the tip. This might not be good for classical music, but might give you all sorts of pops and buzzing sounds that might work well for jazz. Who knows, composers may start writing parts for clarinet with tongue stud and we all will have to get one.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 1999-07-11 13:55
Kimbo,
Having your tongue pierced will in no way <b>help</b> your clarinet playing, and it is very possible to <b>hurt"</b> your playing. I won't go into horror stories about tongue (or any other part of the body) piercing - the medical problems are uncommon (infection, loss of sensation, etc.) but do occur. I'm sure you've already looking into possible physical side effects.
I believe (but I don't have facts to back me up) that after the wound is healed and there were no medical problems that it wouldn't be noticable as long as you took the stud out before playing. Leaving it in would be a "bad" idea for at least 2 reasons: added weight during tongueing and disruption of the airstream.
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Author: Ray Swing
Date: 1999-07-11 16:05
I'd be interested in knowing WHY you want to have your Tongue cut into. Why do you want a ring sticking out of your tongue. You don't honestly think it will improve your clarinet playing, or do you?
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Author: Dee
Date: 1999-07-11 19:42
I would suggest waiting until you are in your 20s or so before even considering this. Lots of things appeal to young people that when they get a little older they will regret having done. By then you will know whether you *really* want to do something like this. However, I personally hope that you will end up passing on the tongue piercing.
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Author: Penny
Date: 1999-07-11 21:45
I don't have my toung pierced, but I know quite a few people that do. I personaly couldn't ever do it just because of pain. You can't take it out for 6 weeks and if you were to have something like at all day rehearsal and you had to leave it out that long the hole would close which would defeat the purpose of having it pierced to begin with, right? Here they put kind of a barbell shaped stud in it. The top screws off so you can take it out, but not for very long. They come in a variety of sizes too. If you do get it done you might want to have them put in more of the center. It could eefect your air stream and tounging. You probably won't be able to play for 4 to 6 weeks. At least think it over for a little while or even wait until you really know ifyou want to go into music professionly or not.
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Author: Kimbo
Date: 1999-07-12 07:01
i do not think it will improve my playing i never even said that in the first place and dont see how anyone got that idea i was just want to know if anyone who posts here has or had a piercing in thier toung and how long it takes to heal and all that sorts
~kim
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Author: 'nifer
Date: 1999-07-12 17:43
if you are piercing your tounge to make a statement to the world, what kind of statement can it make anyways, since your tounge is hidden from the worlds view except for when you take it out, there are many more, less permenent ways, to make statements (hairdye, eyebrow piercing, etc...)
so think about the statement that you would like to make when you consider it :-)
'nifer
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Author: Ginny
Date: 1999-07-12 20:14
'nifer wrote:
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if you are piercing your tounge to make a statement to the world, what kind of statement can it make anyways, since your tounge is hidden from the worlds view except for when you take it out, there are many more, less permenent ways, to make statements (hairdye, eyebrow piercing, etc...)
so think about the statement that you would like to make when you consider it :-)
I'm curious, I've seen people who do this sort of thing. What is the statement I'm supposed to understand? Sorry, but I've no clue.
For me, nothing's as ugly as a picture of myself decked out in decades old fads. Groovy baby.
Ginny
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Author: Lelia
Date: 1999-07-13 17:53
Today's (July 13, 1999) _Washington Post_ (available online at www.washingtonpost.com) includes a short article about tongue piercing, on p. 19 of the _Health_ Section. It's a comment that a practicing dentist sent to the regular "Consultation" column by Jay Siwek M. D., who adds some concerns of his own. I'm not a doctor and I'm not going to try to analyze the medical arguments, nor will I argue the aesthetic value, since that's really none of my business (diff'rent stroke for diff'rent folks), but I think a serious clarinetist would have to be out of his or her mind to even think about taking these risks with something as crucial as the tongue. Why not get some other part of your body pierced where if something goes wrong, it can't foul up your clarinet playing? For people who dig decorative mutilation, the body is a big place with a lot of interesting possibilities.
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Author: Jodi
Date: 1999-07-13 19:22
I am all for expressing yourself and freedom to do what you want with your body, but I would have to advise against this one.
My friend got her tongue pierced last year. She ended up having to back out of a couple of gigs because her tongue was so swollen from the piercing. (the swelling stuck around for a couple of weeks.)
Keep in mind that the tongue is a MUSCLE. Unlike your earlobes which are really just excess skin, the tongue is a muscle like in your arm, and muscles need to be trained and exercised to work. If you had a chunk of arm muscle taken out, your would no doubt have to go through rehab to regain full use of your arm. The same is going to happen with your tongue- not only in clarinet playing, but in speaking too...
If you do decide to go through with it, just make sure that wherever you go they are using clean equipment and everything- the risk of infection is HUGE.
Good luck.
Jo
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Author: STuart
Date: 1999-07-13 22:01
I have to say the nipple advice is most sound. Tongue rings make power statments to some people and with good reason, but the nipple is without a doubt more special.
Besides, your lips will get chaped cause your always sticking your tongue out playing with it. When poeple talk to you, you'll be unconciously clicking it against your teeth, sucking on it, and rollng it around your mouth. It'll take more will power to stop playing with than it would to get it pierced in the first place!
But if you do get it, I bet you could get some neat sounds going!
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Author: Wendy
Date: 1999-07-14 02:53
I had to fix the spelling of "tongue." It was really bothering me =o] . I'll back you up on the piercing thing (I have a nosering). That's how I was known to all the high school clarinet players across the state- the clarinet gilr with the nosrering. One time I was wearing a huge nosering and playing bass clarinet, and this guy swore he could see it vibrating from across the room. I met thi PHENOMENAL bass clarinet player (who was very cute =o] ) who played with a tongue ring and said it didnt bother him at all. He also plays clarinet, flute, and oboe. If you do it, Good Luck!!
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Author: Greg
Date: 1999-07-15 00:49
IMHO, tongue accutriments are best left to Motely Crue (sp?)
guitarists (and other outlaws) who've no "good" use for their tongues.
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Author: Cheetah88
Date: 1999-07-16 19:48
Listen, you don't have to agree w/me, just a thought. Getting your tounge pierced might not feel too good, and it might affect your tounging. Well, just what I think. :-)
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Author: Nicole Y.
Date: 1999-07-17 03:21
If you go through with it: tell me about it 'cause I'm thinking of getting one too.
the rising freshman (soon to be the freshman),
Nicole Y.
P.s. And if anyone wants to know why: for a statement against stereotypes, yes, and also just 'cause that'll be my very own small show of rebellion against the mainstream. Who ever heard of a 5.0 (5 'cause I'm going IB) GPA student in the band with a tongue ring anyway??? Ha ha... Just kidding. I would like to be that person. Got to go.
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Author: Ginny
Date: 1999-07-17 18:09
Thanks, Nicole - I really couldn't figure why. But rebellion against the mainstream seems obvious now. I thought it was just another incomprehensible trend. I'm so out of the mainstream I have no idea who the current pop icons are or the symbolism of tongue piercing. (I live in Silicon Valley, and visit San Francisco, so I see trendiness. I rebell by ignoring pop culture, I suppose.)
My family is so weird that we don't have to do anything to rebell against the mainstream. In fact I have to try real, real hard not to stick out. I hate the attention it gets, but they all seem to know anyhow.
I doubt you're a part of the mainstream anyway, but it may be just as well not to stick in their face, much less literally in your own.
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Author: Kontragirl (Contragirl)
Date: 1999-07-20 00:23
Ouch! Makes my tounge hurt just thinking about it! I met a clarinet player last week that pierced her own tounge. She said it wasn't that bad, but she couldn't play for a while, and then she was breaking her reeds! Well, the choice is yours, but I have a horror story about getting my ears pierced! I would never ever do that!
On a different note, I don't think nipple piercing is a good idea for females...maybe it's just me...but I'd go for the navel.
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Author: brian
Date: 1999-07-21 04:09
i've heard of people getting their tongues pierced and then it getting infected fairly badly.
so i guess theres always the chance that could happen. it would probably deaden the muscle some i would think. yeah i would think it wouldn't be real good for your tonguing
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Author: Terry Horlick
Date: 2002-09-24 14:49
A recent dental journal noted a higher incidence of chipped incisor teeth in folks with pierced teeth. So I guess you could count on a greater chance of messing up a reed or mouthpiece.
Honky-tonk pianos put metal strips against the strings to get a funky buzz sound. Could happen with your reed couldn't it.
A dentist, TH
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