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Re: What is going on here? (Embouchure)

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2010-12-11 19:36

My professor in college was John Yeh. I did NOT listen to him back then and it is one of my great regrets, having lost a good ten years before I found out that he was right all along (and by the way, at least back then, Yeh used double lip......... so did I). When I attempted the "EEEE" configuration back then I thought my sound was thin and constricted even though John Yeh said it made an immediate improvement of my sound. He did convince me that the "AHHHHH" configuration does indeed block the free flow of air but I was not convinced that that had anything to do with my sound.

I would only add that a consistantly quick, thins stream of air is the key to a solid (clarinet vibrating) sound (you should feel the horn vibrate under your fingers ALL THE TIME).

For me the key is in pushing steadily with your abdominal muscles. The right feeling is much like how you would address a bout with constipation. Now Arnold Jacobs is quick to say in "Song and Wind," that one should avoid the Valsalva Maneuver, but there is a professor at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music who claims that "the best rehearsal you'll ever have is when you 5hit on yourself."

.....................Paul Aviles

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