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Re: cause of biting

Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2013-10-29 20:34

The original poster wrote:

>> Just as my tone started getting good, and my chops were strong enough to hold the air for more than 30 minutes to an hour, I started biting.

>> If I don't bite I either get nothing from the horn because the reed won't vibrate, or the sound is completely uncontrolled. It seems to me that I just can't get a decent sound without biting, but I don't know why. More especially I don't know why I'm doing it on clarinet now, when before I did it on saxophone but not clarinet.>>

A question I want to ask of participants in this discussion is: what do you mean when you SAY that you are 'biting'?

How do you KNOW that you are, when you SAY that you are?

Tony

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