Author: TomS
Date: 2015-04-11 04:25
As much as I like the sound and reliability of Legere reeds, they do not perform well in the highest register and also have a tendency to play flat..
A Vandoren M13 and a well balanced V12 3.5+ reed will play well above "super C" ... and with no biting.
Some of the glissando range and control is due to the setup, it's also voicing (your tongue in more radical positions than normal), the embouchure plays a part, and finally, your finger slide over the open tone holes.
About 50 years ago I was watching the Tonight Show (instead of doing my homework) and the band conductor Sketch Henderson (before Doc) introduced a clarinet player that had complete mastery of the glissando. He was featured performing this feat for all of 30 seconds ... which was kinda weird, the show came to a stop during this demonstration. It was less amazing to me back then, I had been attempting to play clarinet for just a few months ... years later, it occurred to me how difficult this was.
In High School, I experimented with hyper altissimo range and the glissando. I had the distinction of being able to play convincingly the gliss in the opening clarinet cadenza of Rhapsody in Blue. But, I practiced the glissando in octaves, a lot, starting on clarion B and up ...
It's more difficult to gliss over the break and also to gliss downward.
I've lost my touch doing this, partly due to not practicing it and using a less flexable setup.
Tom
Post Edited (2015-04-11 04:27)
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