Author: RobinDesHautbois
Date: 2011-01-04 16:23
Finally got to see your 2nd video. Super points made!
Your explanation of releasing pressure that is already in the mouth is very important..... and very easy to forget!
=> very important your point of the tongue preventing the note, never starting it!
Keeping the pressure in the gut, opening the throat to accumulate in the mouth can often sound contradicting, but its completely right. In fact, I have found that tuning on good or bad reeds becomes so much easier when your observations are remembered and applied. Its also easier to drop the jaw with good air technique.
Especially when we get tired, it is too easy to bite the reed, hold pressure in the chest or throat. If exercises can be made to gradually take your slow demonstrations to faster repetitions, then a lot will be gained.
THANK YOU for the video from the horn player: so very important and useful. It shows that the same physical considerations apply to all wind instruments. It doesn't matter what reed scrape you're using, they're all supposed to facilitate the basic principles of sound production.
=> very important his point of the tongue preventing the note, never starting it!
If its O.K. with you, I'll link your videos on my blog as they must remain easy to find (BBoard will compound posts and comments and it might become hard to search for this... forgotten key words and all).
Robin Tropper
M.A.Sc., B.Mus., B.Ed.
http://RobinDesHautbois.blogspot.ca/music
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