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"Voicing" is a crock

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2010-03-04 19:12

Dear Boarders:

I have come to the conclusion that many of us have been duped into believing that the tongue position can alter the pitch and or resistance of a given note.

In recent trials where I set my embouchure securely, then proceed to move my tongue around like Indiana Jones' whip, I find that I get NO CHANGE IN PITCH WHATSOEVER.

I firmly believe the following:

When we say the sound "OOOOO" when speaking (especially when over enunciating) we get that vertical oval shape to our lips. To do this, we OPEN OUR JAWS (in addition to lowering the tongue).

So, when clarinetists say they "voice," what is really happening is that they are openning their jaw. This causes the embouchure to be the main support against the reed (which represents LESS pressure) and consequently lowers the pitch (and changes the response of the reed).

Most of you will disagree. I am prepared for that. But I would like to know how many of you agree.

Key to defining this issue is that the fewer "changes" we need to make from note to note, register to register in technical passages of great leaps the EASIER this all becomes.

.................Paul Aviles

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