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Re: How to Play a nice piano and tapering?

Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2014-10-26 03:20

Peter Cigleris wrote:

>> Read about Tony Pay's Magic Diminuendo, that should explain it.>>

Quite right, Peter.

Quinton wrote:

>> I am an aspiring clarinet player as a freshman in high school playing on an M30 Lyre and Reaserve classic 3.5's on a Buffet E12F. After the past two years of being told to support and put air through the horn, I have realized that I have it down but lose that support when going down to a piano. How do you manage playing a beautful resonant piano? >>

In fact, 'support' is what you are using when you play piano whilst still blowing forte. (More accurately, you play piano with your abdominal and back muscles acting just as they do when you play forte.)

You can do this because your diaphragm is also involved, and 'supports' (= 'acts against', as in 'the table supports the weight of the book lying on it') the action of your blowing muscles.

Here's a thread about that:

http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=20&i=714&t=714

>> LASTLY, I have a bad habit of having too much lower pressure (biting) especially as I run our of air or play piano, how would you recommend fixing this? >>

Yes, you shouldn't need to do this. Stop doing it:-)

Two posts about the embouchure to set straight some of what has been said above:

http://test.woodwind.org/Databases/lookup.php/Klarinet/2002/04/000770.txt

http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=326083&t=326083

Tony

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