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Author: Chris Ondaatje
Date: 2000-08-20 02:08
I am interested in putting together a collection of all the most current research on Clarinet playing from a physiological pespective. I am trying to avoid anecdotal type accounts of how to play. i.e "One should use the diaphragm because "X" says so...". Instead I would like to collect information that has some empirical basis.
If anyone has,or knows good places to find this information please drop me a line.
Regards Chris.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2000-08-20 19:04
Chris, prob. your first "read" should be in Groves "Dict. of Music" etc, and then in many or our "good books" with clarinet in the title. Once you have those in mind, go to "earlyclarinet@egroups.com" for questions to some of the real experts. What an undertaking!! Don
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2000-08-21 07:43
In Japan Charles Neidich with his co-author(his ex-student) publishes a book titled "Clarinet Training Book".
Only this book I found the lip position diagram that 1st,3rd,5th,7th,9th harmonics should be.
But I do not know any english version is available.
Maybe his students may know.
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Author: Chris Ondaatje
Date: 2000-08-22 05:32
Thanks for this Hiroshi. One of my teachers did some similar work examining the positon of the 'oral cavity'when playing.He found the positon of the back of the tongue was important in getting the optimum tone. This positon varies according to the pitch of the note. Low for bottom E getting higher as you approach the break i.e.B,then a slight drop(from what I remember...may be incorrect on this point) before the back of the tongue starts to rise as the pitch of the notes ascend.
The small amount of work I have seen on the emboucure seems to suggest that lip tension has no relationship to pitch.I am sure this last point is fairly controversial.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2000-08-22 13:51
I recall several clarinet-medical articles in recent ICA Journals [look up in their available tabulation of back-issue articles]. I did track down published information about "double-jointed" thumb problems, of course mainly re: left thumb. Will see if I can re-find it. Don
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