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Author: Cherrybomb
Date: 2002-09-24 11:50
Has anyone on the board any experience of playing the clarinet with a tongue piercing,ie has it affected their tonguing etc?
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Author: Synonymous Botch
Date: 2002-09-24 12:30
Come fishing with me, we can get you fitted with an entire tackle box in about ten minutes.
Come to think of it, we may be able to rig some inventive ways to suspend your instrument and reduce your wrist strain, too.
I think the only complication of which to be cognizant is the constant drooling that accompanies the procedure, which is attractive enough to recommend this to ALL your friends!
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Author: Cherrybomb
Date: 2002-09-24 12:40
Hey well I did it and it honestly didn't hurt at all(not in the great pain scheme of things)I feel I'll be able to play within 24 hours as it hardly bled and isn't yet swollen so I'll let you know.
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Author: William
Date: 2002-09-24 14:38
I'll bet that if Larry Combs or Ricardo Morales gets their tongue pierced, we'll all be standing in line.
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Author: David Spiegelthal
Date: 2002-09-24 15:22
I got my r.h. index finger 'pierced' by a lawn mower back in June --- hasn't helped my playing one bit. On the other hand, if Morales and Combs get their fingers 'lawnmowered' also, then I'll be very pleased with myself.
See how quickly a serious topic can degenerate into nonsense here on our favorite BB? Jeez..........
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Author: JMcAulay
Date: 2002-09-24 15:58
GBK: That's a pretty good likeness, but I didn't know you ever sported that bit of beard stubble on your chin.
Live and learn,
John
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Author: GBK
Date: 2002-09-24 16:28
Nothing says you're serious about clarinet playing more than a hunk of metal imbedded in your tongue...GBK
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Author: Brian Peterson
Date: 2002-09-24 16:42
I can see it now...
You might not be serious about playing clarinet if....(fill in the blank).
BP
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Author: Ken
Date: 2002-09-24 17:34
A classic case of degenerate self-mutilation if I've ever saw one (minus the vampire blood).
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Author: Bob Arney
Date: 2002-09-24 19:36
Dave, what the heck were you doing laying down in front of a lawnmower in motion? Don't even consider telling me you stuck your hand under it when it was running! That would be the equivalent of raising a donkey on your property!!!
Bob A
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Author: Cherrybomb
Date: 2002-09-24 20:13
Yeah well I am pretty serious Im doing my Grade 8 and Im going to go on to teach,my vampiristic tendancies however are not a topic for this board.
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Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2002-09-24 20:16
Perhaps a stud that takes a small battery and vibrates would improve flutter-tonguing?
jnk
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Author: Matt Locker
Date: 2002-09-24 20:35
Cherrybomb:
The question I would ask is:
"If you are so serious about the clarinet, why would you do something that has such huge implications to your future without having investigated it PRIOR to taking the action?"
Matt
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Author: bob gardner
Date: 2002-09-24 21:02
gbk: i checked out your picture on the web. man that is gross. does it hurt??????
how many channels can you pick up? It looks like you can get AM and FM both.
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Author: Willie
Date: 2002-09-24 21:03
Add to that, a chicken bone through the nose, a spear in one hand, a dead chicken in the other, a loin cloth and you can dance around our campfire this weekend while we beat on hollowed logs. Does a piercing represent progressing of the human species or regression?
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Author: GBK
Date: 2002-09-24 21:15
Why even go to one of those over priced, unclean piercing shops?
Just stick out your tongue, rest it on an old reed, take a jeweler's screwdriver out of your clarinet case, and voila!!...GBK
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-09-24 21:59
Willie wrote:
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> Add to that, a chicken bone through the nose, a spear in
> one hand, a dead chicken in the other, a loin cloth and you can
> dance around our campfire this weekend while we beat on
> hollowed logs. Does a piercing represent progressing of the
> human species or regression?
No idea. Perhaps progession considering the pickles we get ourselves into on regular occasions ...
But in any case, body art (piercing, painting, scarring, tattooing et al.) are part of different heritages, and disparaging things you don't relate to is something I'm sure you don't intend.
While I don't have any piercings or tattoos, I do have a number of friends (my own age, closer to the 50 side than the 40 side) who have either or both. None are wind or brass players, so they can't comment on the problems. I'm guessing there are - but I don't really know.
In general:
Let's stay on subject, not make remarks on the propriety of piercings. Do that on a different list.
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2002-09-24 23:25
Cherrybomb, it probably won't make any difference. The location of a tongue piercing is not quite where tonguing is done. If your wore a significant item in it it could increase the turbulence of the air to and hence past the reed. It is entirely possible that this would give a richer set of overtones.
You are unlikely to get sensible discussion of this topic here. It was tried in a sax forum and attracted responses highlighting the human condition of needing to put others down if they thought/acted differently from what is traditional conformist behaviour.
Sad, really.
The greatest contributions made to mankind were made by those who stepped outside traditional thinking...
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2002-09-26 11:01
OK, I've found the thread in the sax forum, for what it's worth - perhaps little more than entertainment.
Go to http://forum.saxontheweb.net/
Scroll down to 'Tips & Techniques for Advanced Players" and click.
Then scroll down to "Can a sax player pierce his tongue?", perhaps easier to locate by its "100" posts.
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Author: Ken
Date: 2002-09-26 22:09
I can't see where having a tongue piercing wouldn't be a physical and/or air stream obstruction during fast and sustained tonguing. However, it would be interesting to know from someone who had one "first" and then learned clarinet if there was any difference or improvement AFTER they took it off.
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Author: Matt Locker
Date: 2002-09-27 17:37
From Cherrybomb:
"Ty Gordon the first sensible thing anyone has said all day,"
To Cherrybomb:
I had previously asked the following, in all seriousness:
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Cherrybomb:
The question I would ask is:
"If you are so serious about the clarinet, why would you do something that has such huge implications to your future without having investigated it PRIOR to taking the action?"
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I would really like to know your answer to the question. It's a totally legitimiate question.
Matt
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Author: Robert
Date: 2002-09-27 18:12
Matt, you asked:
"If you are so serious about the clarinet, why would you do something that has such huge implications to your future without having investigated it PRIOR to taking the action?"
Isn't that why Cherrybomb asked the question on the BB in the first place? But all she got were prejudiced and judgemental responses, as well as some misunderstandings, like your own.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-09-27 21:03
Robert wrote:
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> M
> Isn't that why Cherrybomb asked the question on the BB in the
> first place? But all she got were prejudiced and judgemental
> responses, as well as some misunderstandings, like your
> own.
Robert,
You're wrong on both counts.
1) Cherrybomb asked and then got the tongue pierced the next day, before she could have read many of then answers. Her mind was made up before getting pierced. As a woodwind player she might have selected some other area of the body to get pierced first - perhaps the nose.
2) She got <b>some</b> prejudiced and judgemental answers.
Anyone old enough to get their body pierced should not be so naive as to think there won't be some adverse reaction. I mean, what's the <b>point</b> of pircing except to get some reaction, good or bad?
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Author: Matt Locker
Date: 2002-09-30 11:53
Robert:
I don't consider my response to Cherrybomb as either prejudicial or judgemental. And she didn't respond to either of my requests which tells me enough.
And with that I'm done with this thread.
Matt
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