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Re: Short squeak on staccato

Author: Dan Shusta
Date: 2023-11-23 20:29

Dobby:

Here's some videos from YouTube. The first one is the one I mentioned in my post above.

How to stop squeaking on your clarinet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnFoHfVt7_s

Stop squeaking on the clarinet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xofFF8ll6k

Clarinet Squeaking: How and Why? | Backun Educator Series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS3CO5wHbdc

How to - Say bye to the clarinet squeak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAFBnv8Vbuc

Identify and Solve your Squeaking!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RnSD8uvTVI

Stop Squeaking!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr8RDByQn1M

How to prevent squeaking on Clarinet!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IS79bFDTNvE

Clarinet Lesson: Fewer Squeaks, Better Fingers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snCeyazbGLM

Clarinet -- Causes of Squeaking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9MMJEIrYos

Around 15-18 years ago, I did some experimenting with my magnehelic leak detector. I rubber plugged the upper section, hooked up my meter and the leakage was zero. However, then I took out the rubber plugs representing left hand fingers 1,2 and 3. When I placed my fingers over those 3 holes, I was surprised to see how much leakage was present. As I varied my finger pressure over these 3 holes, the harder I pressed, the less leakage I read on the meter. This lead me to coin the phrase: "Fingers can Leak a Lot".

I thought about putting Latex over my finger tips but never did.

I believe that drier fingers leak more. So playing in a low humidity environment would probably cause more leakage than playing in a high humidity one.

Another thing I thought of this morning is to simply put some hand lotion on the finger segments and left thumb which cover open holes. This, theoretically, should reduce the leakage and thus produce faster and easier tone note starting.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

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