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Re: How to Play a nice piano and tapering?

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2014-10-23 22:37

"tims,"

Actually I would never say "put more pressure on the reed." If you take your thumb and press against the part of the reed where the mouthpiece starts to curve away from it, you see what happens when you do that......it makes the opening smaller. If you make the opening too small for the amount of air you are using, what you get is just a buzzy sound (or at very least as Brad Behn may say you are putting energy into making the tip opening smaller when you could just start off with a smaller tip opening to begin with).

I would suggest that perhaps another way around "the clamp" effect, is to draw the clarinet closer in to your body (keeping the head straight of course). What happens here is that your upper teeth are farther up the mouthpiece than where your lower lips come in contact with the reed. And maybe this is kinda what your suggesting with the "jaw forward" stance.

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

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