Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2016-09-05 02:23
If Paul Aviles was joining this conversation, I suspect he'd point out that the throat / palate don't move because they don't have muscles to move them. He has indeed written to that effect here in the past.
Having now spoken for him (my apologies, Paul, if you read this), I'll venture that I've never quite agreed with him on that, though I don't have any anatomical references to support either agreement or disagreement.
I think Paul's right in that most of what we do in voicing involves the positioning of the tongue. However, the act of swallowing feels like it does something with muscles in that area besides just the tongue.
In addition, the positioning of the jaw involves several little sets of muscles. It can be protruded straight out below the upper jaw (like an underbite) or drawn straight back in (like an overbite). Those kind of actions also seem to affect the throat cavity.
People can operate all the muscles in this area unconsciously. They're actually not easy to notice when you're thinking of something else (like expression or fingers etc.)
My guess as to the original question is that the tongue, lower down, is the culprit - possibly not just shutting off the air stream, but changing it enough that vibration and tone production is affected. My advice would be a) check with the teacher, and b) try relaxing all those muscles while playing and see if the problem goes away, even if it produces a horrifically terrible sound. I suspect it will do both. Then, keep varying things until you become aware of what muscles are doing what. Then, practice for control.
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