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Re: clarinet voicing

Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2007-09-09 03:26

William wrote:

>> It might be relevant to know that TR is a double lip player>>

It isn't relevant, though. Anything that a double lip player can do can be done by an suitably able single lip player.

>> He also advocates raising the back of ones tongue....[etc]>>

The fact that subtle variations of tongue positions are of supreme importance in clarinet playing is controversial ... but to an expert player, obvious.

To get some idea of it, whistle a tune... and realise that though your 'embouchure' is relatively constant, tiny variations of tongue position -- variations that you would find it very difficult to describe -- make enormous differences to the result.

>> 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 probably said 'Benade' rather than 'Bonade' -- cf "Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics" by Arthur Benade.

>> 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.>>

What it in fact does is to minimise turbulence -- or, delay the onset of turbulence as the dynamic increases.

A suitable analogy is with an ordinary tap (faucet, do y'all call it?-)

As you progressively turn a tap on, the smooth 'cylinder' of water 'breaks up' at a certain point.

But if you delicately round off the sharp edges inside, you can delay the onset of this breakup to a much larger speed of water delivery.

Tony

Post Edited (2007-09-09 03:48)

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