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Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2008-09-21 19:37
John, I think I need to stop you in this line of speculation. I thought Liquorice made the matter quite clear, but as where I am has a good Internet connection, I can do it myself.
Because many people think that 'support' is equivalent to blowing -- so that 'support' is necessary in order to play the clarinet -- I need to make it clear that although I and others USE support more or less all the time, it ISN'T necessary to use support to play very many things on the clarinet.
First of all, it isn't necessary to use support to play a good note on the clarinet; and second, it isn't necessary to use support to play evenly a sequence of notes that have very similar responses on the clarinet.
I am not trying to demean the use of support. I am simply trying to explain what it IS; and one of the consequences of what it is, is the truth of the previous paragraph. So, if you understand me, then you'll see why I want to explain all the ramifications of what support is. It's a sort of CHECK on my readers, to see whether they've understood me.
You seem to me to be hung up on this FFF thing. Okay, let's make it look less violent, and make the situation more particular. I say that, when you want to play a very loud note, mostly you don't need to use support to do so. Why? Because support, although it has other benefits in clarinet playing, simply serves in this situation to reduce the dynamic. It doesn't make the note any BETTER.
And that's true of playing an isolated quieter note, too. If you don't want to take advantage of the other benefits of support, then that quieter note can be played without support too.
BUT, all this is beside the point, really, which is to explain what support IS.
By the way, 'perfectly well' doesn't mean, both 'well' and 'perfectly'. It means, 'adequately'. So if I say, I usually pour tea with my right hand, but I can do it perfectly well with my left hand, it means that I can do it ADEQUATELY with my left hand.
It is beginning to seem that you have an agenda here which is not that of understanding what I am saying. It is that of trying to make out that I don't know what I'm talking about.
I'm sorry, but that won't work. First, I do know what I'm talking about; and second, you don't.
I had hoped that the situation was different with regard to your attitude, which is why I continued to talk to you; but I'm afraid I've changed my mind.
Tony
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