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Author: bflatclarinetist
Date: 2005-08-04 20:43
I was on this other bboard and I thought this was really hilarious:
do any of you know how to change the sound of the clarinet when you`re playing it, i noticed how when proffesionals play it they can make like a sexy sound to it, if you do could you teach me how =)
Hehe...
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Author: Danny Boy
Date: 2005-08-04 20:46
Some bloke once told me to have special reeds ready for Brahms symphonies, harder on one side than the other.
Twist the mouthpiece...and bingo...'different' sounds.
lol
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2005-08-04 23:34
If you're using the same mouthpiece and clarinet, I find that reed strength and embouchure pressure (note: not "bite", but more "pressure") can create different sounds. Also, I think that ligatures can make a minor difference in sounds. At least I percieve my sound to be different with different style/material ligatures.
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2005-08-05 00:28
I just unpacked my ATG reed finishing system, and glancing at the voluminous instructions noted that twisting mouthpiece in mouth exposes reeds that are unbalanced.
Maybe I shouldn't bother trying to balance my reeds --if I can make sexy noises with my bad reeds!
Bob Phillips
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Author: Arnoldstang
Date: 2005-08-06 03:40
Clarinet angle.......play with bell up....like trumpet......use softer reeds....puff cheeks.....loose embouchure... learn to play subtone......don't take a lot in the mouth... airy..
Freelance woodwind performer
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Author: BobD
Date: 2005-08-06 14:27
I guess I don't know what a sexy clarinet sound is even tho I think I've heard all the kinds of sounds that can be made thereon.
Bob Draznik
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2005-08-06 14:39
I've been sitting here thinking of what a "sexy" clarinet tone would sound like, and I have no idea. The images that pop into my mind have to do with the interpretation / phrasing of the music or with the way the performer behaves, not with the tone quality of the instrument itself.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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Author: Markael
Date: 2005-08-07 11:09
The term “sexy” is the hang-up. Most people, I think, would associate a “sexy” lip gliss with a saxophone.
How could anybody learn to do a lip gliss by reading a book or web page? It seems it would be easier to figure it out on your own or get someone to show it to you.
Ever since high school I’ve been able to do a lip gliss, at least on certain pitches. It’s pretty easy, in, say, upper clarion. But it seems that some people just can’t do it, and when you try to show them they don’t get it.
Some notes are tricky. I have trouble sometimes in the vicinity of D and D# above the staff. There tends to be a break there, and it comes out sounding like an adolescent boy whose voice is changing.
Now, the huge smear at the beginning of Rhapsody in Blue—that’s hard. Not many people can do it. I don’t understand how it is done.
John Gibson wrote: “ARTIE SHAW…PERIOD…” (Why the ellipses after the word “period?”)
Well, I’m a huge fan of Artie Shaw, but he doesn’t immediately come to my mind on this particular topic. I think of Klezmer players, who use this technique more frequently. Margot Leverett does a lot of this kind of stuff. It’s not so much sexy as “smart-ass.”
But getting back to Artie Shaw, if you want sexy, listen to his rendition of a ballad—for instance, These Foolish Things.
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2005-08-07 11:21
>>Now, the huge smear at the beginning of Rhapsody in Blue—that’s hard. Not many people can do it. I don’t understand how it is done.
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I do know how it's done, because about a year and a half ago, a major professional clarinet player showed me exactly how. He explained and demonstrated in some detail (as I was picking my jaw up off the floor, since he moved from slur into slide several notes lower than most clarinet players think is feasible), and I've practiced the simplest version of that gliss until my lip hurts--but I still can't do it. I'm thinking of that terrific scene in TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT, where Lauren Bacall's character lingers in a slinky pose in the doorway, lowers her eyelids and says to Humphery Bogart's character in a come-hither voice, "You know how to whistle, don't you? Just put your lips together and blow." Ooooh, mama. But I still can't whistle worth half a squeak, either. Some folks got it and some folks don't.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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Author: Mike Clarinet
Date: 2005-08-08 11:50
... and then it depends on your perception of "sexy". I have no trouble making noises on a clarinet that could only be described as sexy if you are an amorous tomcat...
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Author: BobD
Date: 2005-08-08 15:11
The upward smear, gliss or whatever you care to call it, in RIB is not that hard to do. However, it's easier on some clarinets than others probably due to key and pad adjustments and it probably depends on reed,mp etc too.
But....to do a downward smear or gliss.....now that's something!!
Bob Draznik
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