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Re: Weird Clarinet sound middle e and f

Author: Sum Randumb D00d
Date: 2017-04-02 01:45

> "3rd octave e and f I get this weird growling noise"

That's a strange place to get a noise. On most horns, that general area should be rather "clean".

Although the three-fingered D just below there can be problematic on many horns, and the middle-finger F# just above there can be anywhere from problematic to disastrous.

Maybe Backun was trying to improve D & F# at the expense of E & F?

> "another thing I noticed was that to play any high notes especially above the high g, I have to put my mouth in my mouthpiece a little further than usual"

You're compensating for deficiencies in your reed - pushing the reed past its comfort point - relative to your embouchure & diaphragm strength and what you're asking of the reed.

In addition to re-arranging the placement of the reed in your mouth, you can also help the reed by pushing as hard as you can with your diaphragm muscles. Even if you allow only a little bit of air "out", it helps for the pressure [& speed] of the air column to be as high as possible.

Or you can just graduate to more powerful reeds.

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