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Re: High notes

Author: Paula S
Date: 2012-08-17 12:28

Hello,

Along with my friend Mr Baermann, this discussion has been really useful to me so thank you all.
I was toying with changing my reed to a slightly harder one. I have Vandoren v12 3.5s on my standard 1010 mouthpiece. Way back when I was playing for several hours a day I used standard Vandoren 3.5s which I believe are slightly harder? Also there have been some really interesting points about the technical properties of the reed and positioning the reed which have given me food for thought. I have resisted the temptation to change so far as I quite like the overall sound I am getting but will bear this in mind. The other point about lip pressure and the oral cavity, and air speed have been something I have been trying to capture/mentally' photograph'/memorise when I have been successful at hitting the top C with a good pitch and tone. I was wondering what it should feel like physically? At the moment when I get it right I feel like I am launching myself off the floor ( not literally of course). I have watched videos of other clarinettists hitting these notes and many of them seem to do the same? Artie Shaw seems to hold it together though with just a few bulging blood vessels! My memory of the classical repetoire and pieces that require this has faded I am afraid as most of that got thrown in my 'too high for me pile'. What I would like to know is, are there any pieces which demand a clarion c to altissimo c jump? I have been warming up with octave to octave jumps mainly to get my tuning right. This is where the high C has been very variable. I have got it most of the time in a scale and when I have been playing argeggios. My new tuner arrived yesterday and when I hit the C properly it is spot on in tune. If there are such pieces which demand an octave jump then it is probably highly unlikely I would ever perform them but I would like to know I could do it if I tried. ;-) I vaguely remember a high C at the end of the Spohr but can't remember the note that preceded it. The Shaw Concerto came through the post today and I can see it finishes with an altissimo G to C which I now know I could do. My question is, is it worth continuing to play those warm up octaves across all the C's and induce bulging blood vessels and a convulsive diaphragm?

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