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Author: abrogard
Date: 2019-06-30 12:37
I am a total newcomer to it.
I hear a noise of rushing air while I'm playing. Even when I'm not. So I'm guessing it is escaping from my mouth around the mouthpiece.
Not sealing it properly I suppose.
Is there anything else it could be?
Are there any exercises or whatever to help develop a good seal?
Are some people/mouths incapable of making a perfect seal?
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2019-06-30 15:50
There is a good chance that you need to use a much softer reed for two reasons. The first may be that you are just working too hard and in that effort you cannot keep from pushing air out of the "corners" of your mouth. The other is that the airy sound is the sound of the air you are pushing into the mouthpiece while the reed refuses to vibrate enough.
You need to start off easy with a #2 strength (or 2 1/2 at most) reed. It also helps to have a decent mouthpiece with a only a moderate open facing. For that I highly recommend the Clark Fobes Debut mouthpiece. This mouthpiece is just about as good as any mouthpiece out there regardless of price, and yet it's only $40 US dollars!
And it cannot be overstated that having someone help you develop formative technique is a must because it takes much longer to unlearn things that you do wrong for any length of time.
...............Paul Aviles
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Author: Tony F
Date: 2019-06-30 17:33
Since you are a newcomer the the world of the clarinet, I'd suggest that your first step should be to find a teacher. This will enable you to avoid the many traps and miss-steps that lie in wait for the untutored novice. Paul has given you good advice, I suggest you take it. It will make the clarinet experience far more enjoyable.
Tony F.
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