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Author: Lorie
Date: 2000-07-06 22:33
Can't hurt. A good embouchure is focused a little more forward, as if saying the letter "Q"..or whistling. But ya know, after playing clarinet for over 30 years, I don't whistle very well...
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Author: Willie
Date: 2000-07-07 03:42
It is also good ear training as the only thing contolling the pitch is your lips and your ears.
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2000-07-07 03:45
Good whislers easily close and open a special organ in throat since in whisling we cannot use tonguing and something alternative is necessary to make articulation.
This organ seems to be called "voice gate". We can feel closure of this when we lift up heavy things by our both hands.Unbelievable it might sound, whislers can move this organ very very quickly.
Sometimes flutists are required to omit tonguing and replace it with voice gate open/close since we can emit a note extremly softly (Prelude to Faune apres midi by Debussy is an example) which is impossible even by 'Du' pronunciation tonguing.
I think this may enhance clarinet players' articulation variety. You may be able to ask good flutists or singers 'how' to obtain this feeling.
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Author: Eoin McAuley
Date: 2000-07-07 08:52
I don't agree with Hiroshi about using the glottis or "voice gate" for articulation. I started teaching myself the clarinet and used this method because I didn't know about tonguing. It is very hard on the throat and is not in any way as rapid as good tonguing.
Whistling may teach you a good sense of pitch, but in my opinion singing is a better way of learning to produce music in pitch, as it has a greater range and will also encourage good breath control.
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Author: Lelia
Date: 2000-07-07 12:33
I don't know if whistling does anything for playing the clarinet, but I sure wish playing the clarinet would make me a better whistler! In the movie, "To Have and Have Not," Lauren Bacall's character, Slim, whose real name is Marie, says in her sultry voice to Humphery Bogart's character, whom she calls Steve even though his name's Harry, "Just whistle for me. You know how to whistle, don't you? Just put your lips together and . . . blow." Well, maybe that worked for Slim, but when I try it, what comes out is the hissy noise a teakettle makes *before* it really starts to boil. Phooey, I don't look like her, either.
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Author: Lisa
Date: 2000-07-08 03:06
You know, it's funny...I was just telling someone the other day that my whistling ability had improved dramatically since I started playing the clarinet again last September! Perhaps they are connected.
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Author: Patrick
Date: 2000-07-10 03:02
Hey I never learned how to whistle and I play the clarinet fine. It might help with pitch. But that's probably about it. Don't worry too much if you can't whistle.
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Author: Kohei
Date: 2000-08-04 20:09
I think it most definitely helps if you're interested in exploring the altissimo/high overtone range. It is incorrect to think that in whistling, the pitch is controlled by the lips! When you whistle up a scale, it's your tongue moving in a specific manner to decrease the volume inside of you mouth, thereby raising the pitch.
Gaining a precise sense of how you control this with your tongue/larynx and vocal code is essential to good altissimo playing for sax, and it applies also for clarinet, I believe.
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