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Re: Avoiding sharpness during circular breathing

Author: Chris P
Date: 2017-09-01 17:14

You can circular breathe on clarinet? Well done - I can only do that on oboe/cor due to the high breath resistance, but not on clarinet or sax as the resistance is much lower.

As there's very little air stored whilst taking a breath and therefore lower air pressure, that's the reason for the sharpness as you simply don't have the same level of support compared to normal breath pressure for normal playing. Chances are you may also be tightening up your embouchure at the same time, so a combination of low breath pressure and a tighter embouchure is going to cause a rise in pitch.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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