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Author: Wu
Date: 2007-03-24 14:23
Hello everyone. I am new here. I need to have some suggestions from you. I am currently playing on a Lyrique Bb clarinet. It played quiet well. However, recently, I don’t know for whatever reason, I started to sound disgusting, I cannot play loud, the tone doesn’t resonate at all, and worse of all, the thumb C and the B below it on the instrument are extremely sharp, and the throat G to A# are all sharp by 10cents (I am turning at 442Mhz), and I could not get them in tune, no matter how much i pull the joints out. Also, I cannot play loud, and sounds like a mosquito on the high register. And just something about the Lyrique, I feel that the Prestige vibrate more than the Lyrique (physically), so does this mean that the Prestige resonate more than the Lyrique? Currently, I am playing on the Rendiour T-40 mouthpiece with Vandorean V56 reeds (4, 4.5). I am extremely frustrated, can anyone help me, and I really appreciate any form of help!
Another thing is about my embouchure; my whole mouth cavity become very tensed when I play, and I know this will cause the tone to become bad, so I want to which part of my mouth muscles should I use so that my mouth cavity wouldn't be that tensed?
Thank you very much!
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Author: JJAlbrecht
Date: 2007-03-25 16:34
It would be difficult to diagnose your difficulties from thousands of miles away. The best thing for you to do would be to seek the advice of a respected professional clarinetist in your immediate area. Have him or her check out your playing habits and how you are forming your embouchure, as well as playing your setup to make sure it is working properly. From your post, I am assuming you do not currently take lessons from a professional teacher. Please correct me if I am mistaken. If so, what does your teacher say?
You might also fire off an e-mail to Tom Ridenour and ask him if he has any suggestions. He made the instrument, after all!
Jeff
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Author: Alexis
Date: 2007-03-26 12:12
Hi
Well your reeds sound quite hard. I'm not sure what the mouthpiece is like, but I've never heard anyone make 4.5 strength vandorens work.
Try and make your set-up easier to blow, then there will be less tension. (Hopefully!)
Speak to a teacher about it.
Difficult to give advice like this on the internet.
Good luck
Alex
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Author: C2thew
Date: 2007-03-26 16:11
Ditto on the reed suggestion. 4.5 is pretty stiff for the mouthpiece supplied. his mouthpiece is medium openish (or the one that i tried) and i was using a size 3 reed to get my sound.
3 versus 4.5...... that's a world's difference
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. they are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive as railroads lead to Boston to New York
-Walden; Henry Thoreau
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