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 Re: Speaking of altissimo
Author: cigleris 
Date:   2008-02-17 23:52

Arnoldstang, playing with teeth on the reed requires a fair amount of practice, time and energy. The method involves moving the lower lip gradually till there is no lip left and the teeth are exposed to the reed. I found when learning this whilst at college that to play anything higher that altissimo D I needed less lip contact and to get up to altissimo G like the one in the recording and in The Seven Brightnesses by Maxwell Davies, teeth lightly on the heart of the reed worked well. A great deal of control is needed with the embouchure as the harmonics are so close together in that area. In a way it's rather like the brass technique of pitching notes.

How do you reset the embouchure?

Well that depends on you the performer. I developed a way that worked for me but it did involved lifting. The performer in the video clip does this also by way of puffing out his cheeks and relaxing the embouchure. I haven't used teeth on the reed stuff for a long time as I got most of that out of my system at college performing contempory and avant-garde stuff. I'll have a go again in my practice session tomorrow and see if I can be anymore clearer about how to do it. Read the section in the Cambridge Guide by Roger Heaton, he mentions it briefly.

Peter Cigleris
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