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 Re: My clarinet sounds like a Kazoo
Author: Paul Aviles 
Date:   2021-02-07 03:02

Some time ago someone posted a link of a computer playing a clarinet. The mechanism to achieve getting the air into the horn was plexiglass box with a rubber gasket in place of lips/jaw. I assume from what I saw that the pressure of the gasket around the mouthpiece/reed was constant. The machine played beautifully from the very bottom of the clarinet range all the way to at least the "G" four ledger lines above the staff. Now was it the very best sound.........no, but it was really good. So my opinion is that you only need to provide a nice platform to hold the reed/mouthpiece. I spent WAY too much time obsessing about embouchure in my formative years that I am convinced was mostly if not all wasted time and effort.


AIR IS KING



As for the specific equipment, yes if you listen down into the core of the recorded timbre you can pick out differences from one international school over another (used to be easier forty years ago). HOWEVER, if you listen to Emma Johnson vs. Ricardo Morales vs. Andreas Ottensamer (etc.), you'll hear a LOT more similarities of projection, vibrancy, resonance than differences.



One thing I'd throw out there, if you are using air correctly, you'll feel the clarinet vibrate under your fingers (in every register, at every dynamic).





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