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Author: ClaRiNeT_CaNdY
Date: 2003-10-04 16:17
i have heard that your voice affects your tone.. For example, if you have a low voice, you'll have alot of character with your low notes, but your high notes would sound pinched. Is that true?
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Author: BobD
Date: 2003-10-04 16:58
H'mmmm! Personally I believe that there is some relationship between one's voice and his clarinet voice but I don't know that your explanation is what it really is.
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Author: Alseg
Date: 2003-10-04 17:14
One theory holds that your native language has something to do with it.
French....pinched, brighter, perhaps tremolo (listen to Edith Piaff sing)
German...well u get the picture.
Another contention is that your sinuses and shape of oral cavity etc affect the sound.
I DO know that when I gave/give my clar. to my teachers they sound(ed) more like themselves than like me, with slight differences owing to reed and setup.....so the whole biz about mpc is finding the ones that allow you so *most easily* sound like yourself, and then adapt it from there.
Legal stuff....this is NOT meant to open the can of worms known as nature vs nurture, bell or barrel shaped curves, or anything in any way related to Rush out on a Limbaugh.
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Author: hans
Date: 2003-10-04 19:20
IMO the vocal chords in our throats have negligible influence on clarinet tone; however, to the extent that teeth, tongue position, and throat opening affect our voices, it could be argued that our voices influence our tone. Tone is affected primarily by characteristics of the oral cavity (including teeth, tongue position, and throat opening), embouchure, breath support, and the instrument (i.e., mouthpiece, reed, bore, etc.).
Hans
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Author: theclarinetist
Date: 2003-10-04 19:45
Maybe your thinking of "voicing" (which is the position of tongue and throat - to put it very generally) affecting tone.... I'm never heard of one's voice making a difference...
Don Hite
theclarinetist@yahoo.com
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Author: BobD
Date: 2003-10-04 23:05
I think Don VanVliet's voice sounds like his clarinet...Stoltzman's too
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Author: Liquorice
Date: 2003-10-05 06:12
I think Stolzman's clarinet sounds like the voices of some of the residents of our local mental hospital. Perhaps I should start selling tickets?
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Author: Synonymous Botch
Date: 2003-10-05 11:49
There is a space, above your lungs, before the clarinet that is also filled with air when you play.
It includes a large portion of your nose and throat.
These areas are of prime attention to vocal coaches goading the most out of singers with a musical bent.
I find that my best playing (when planets align, the moon in the 7th house)
sets my ears to buzzing and can be felt in my chest as well.
Maybe this is what makes the contribution to sound.
We have learned certain ways to produce speech and the mobile musculature in these areas probably assumse much the same shapes when we play.
But what do I know?
And leave Stoltzman out of this, that's been done to Death already.
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Author: LeWhite
Date: 2003-10-05 11:59
Actually, last year I had my tonsils out, and I SWEAR is affected my tone, or at least the feel of playing.
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Author: Phur
Date: 2003-10-05 12:07
I think Hans hit the nail on the head. The way we use our vocal tracts affect our voices and is of major importance with our Clarinet tone.
In the 1980's one of my lectures at university was Dr Peter Clinch (a terrific Clarinet and Classical Saxophone player). His Doctoral thesis was:
" Oral tract fluctuations in clarinet and saxophone performance: an acoustical analysis."
He produced an X-RAY Video of the movements of the vocal tract of several professional players. He felt that the bore of the instrument and the vocal tract positions were of primary importance in tone production.
Peter interpreted the results in this way. The larynx rose in the lower register as the player goes up the scale however, in the upper register the tongue is placed forward in the mouth and the larnx is lowered.
He felt that the way we speak influences our sound. As I have an obvious English accent he would joke about the "Pommie" tone.
Hope this is of assistance. Chris
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