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Re: Clarinet's High Voicing Questions

Author: Ken Lagace
Date: 2022-08-30 23:01

Different take - more intuition than fact on my part.

The vibrations happen on both sides of the reed. The mouth cavity helps/hurts the current vibration. The tongue making a small cavity in the mouth helps the small part of the vibration going on inside the clarinet bore for high pitches.
High frequencies need more energy (air speed) than low frequencies.

Test it this way;
Play low E softly with low energy (speed) air and press the register key and B will not play.
The 2nd register needs more energy to work. The B is not strong enough in the overtone series of the low E.

Play low E softly with high energy (speed) air, The E sounds more ‘clarinetish’ because B is present in in the overtone series. Press the register key and the B sounds.

Similarly, the 3rd and above registers need even more energy.
Playing all registers with the same high energy (air speed) helps playing each register without having to change other elements, for instance biting for high notes.

Playing the full range on the clarinet’s four plus range can be played on the softest reeds with fast air, and only changing the mouth cavity size (voicing).

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