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Re: clarinet voicing

Author: William
Date: 2007-09-08 15:04

It might be relevant to know that TR is a double lip player, And while he was working on my Concerto A at the LeBlanc factory in Kenosha (tuning and voicing some "iffy" notes), he made the following statement: "I don't know if it's my double lip embouchure, but I can play almost any clarinet in tune". He also advocates raising the back of ones tongue, "as if imitating a cat's hiss", to "focus and accelorate" the stream of air towards the tip of the mouthpiece. He says that this also helps "voice" the tone quality you play with. However, he didn't specifically mention anything about the "flat" C#.......

Although this is off the subject of this thread, one other curious thing that Tom did to my new Concertos was rounding the inner rims of all the finger chimmneys on both clarinets--even the metal thumb--saying this was an "old Bonade thing" and that it makes legato fingering between notes much smoother. He also said that it improves the tone qualities of those chimmney notes because rounding the rims smooths the "harshness" of airs waves emminating from them. Tom specualted that with years of normal use, these chimmney rims become naturally rounded and that is why older clarinets often sound mellower that new ones off the shelf. Seemed to work for my (then) new Concertos.

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