Author: seabreeze
Date: 2014-10-05 22:45
Well, back in the 1920s, when the Jay Gatsby parties were raging till 3 in the morning and the booze was flowing out of the musician's pores, some jokers used to pass around "Party Tricks for Saxophone" (or the more sedate "Parlor Tricks for Saxophone" ) books that included, along with slap tongue and laughing hyena effects, a cardboard reed trick that would give the alto sax, for example, a bass register of rasping timbre and uncertain pitch.
Try it on clarinet. If you have an old playing card you don't want or a thick index card or even a paperback book cover or a not too thick cardboard box handy, cut out something vaguely in the shape of a reed. Affix the cardboard impersonator to the clarinet mouthpiece and see if the subterranean bass register sounds appear. They do for me, totally at the expense of the regular registers and rational tuning. Cardboard reeds will also give you very percussive slap tongue effects.
Still, you could win a bet this way, if you're betting that you can get some really low "notes" out of the clarinet any which way, without lengthening the tube. And, remember, I never said this was anything more than a stale party (or parlor) trick from a bygone era, unless someone in the avant guarde wants to reclaim it as a "retro" sound effect, along with Tin Lizzie and fliver car horns, running boards, megaphones, and raccoon hats.
Post Edited (2014-10-06 01:22)
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