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 Black Magic and the Art of Clarinet Playing
Author: Paul Aviles 
Date:   2011-12-22 01:24

.......or

"Do we Boehmophiles still have anything to learn from the Germans?"


I have been somewhat intrigued by the notion put forth on the Gerold Clarinet website regarding a wooden 'plate' onto which the thumb rest is affixed. According to Gerold Angerer: "Due to its position close to an oscillation node, this grenadilla wood thumb plate also has a very positive effect on the clarinet's oscillation behaviour." It is my understanding that it 'decouples' the thumb from the resonance of the clarinet (at least at that point).

THEN.......... I encountered a video of Ulrike Burger of the Nuremburg Symphony http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_Qn-ywn4TM in which she turns her clarinet over and you can clearly see a large piece of cork glued to the back of her horn just below the thumb rest (at 3:32).

Naturally, I immediately ran to glue a piece of cork to the back of my horn after seeing this, and I obtained a really pronounced ring to the sound particularly in the chalumeu but also in the altissimo !!!!

You can try this without glue (I would think) hanging a piece of cloth or foam rubber off your thumb rest.

Have ANY of you tried this ?!!!!!?




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