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Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2022-08-09 22:09
Someone recently mentioned Gustave Langenus's Complete Method for the Clarinet. I happen to have a copy of it and was browsing through the text at the beginning where Langenus explains everything you want (or need) to know about how to play the clarinet.
One detail I ran across that to me is an oddity is this instruction on breathing:
"Except when it is necessary to take a quick breath, clarinetists should take breath through the nostrils."
None of my teachers ever said that to me as a young player. I don't especially find the idea objectionable, but out of very long established habit, I found it almost impossible last night to make myself do it while playing, even though I never breathe through my mouth when I'm not preparing to blow into a clarinet.
Is this suggestion familiar advice to anyone here?
Karl
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