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Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2005-05-22 21:11
sdr wrote:
> For me, the most useful image of support is squeezing a> toothpast tube. Having firm support is the equivalent of> squeezing from the bottom of the tube: Whatever pressure you> exert acts to regulate/control the flow of toothpaste out of> the mouth of the tube. Lack of support is akin to squeezing in> the middle of the tube: you have far less control of> toothpaste flow because the energy of the squeeze is variably> divided in moving up to push out the toothpase and down into> the base of the tube.
This description is one of 'blowing the clarinet well', which I was careful to characterise as different from what I mean by 'playing with support' in my very first post.
Of course, it's best to 'blow the clarinet well' in the sense you describe -- and I often use the toothpaste tube metaphor myself to explain that.
Support is another matter. That's what I was trying to make clear.
> Mr. Pay's description, while better than most, works no better> for me than Keith Stein's "basketball in the lower abdomen"> imagery.
Perhaps I should say that I'm not familiar with Mr Stein's basketball, whatever that is.
But anyway, sorry, you have to explain more clearly. What makes you characterise what I wrote as 'better than most'? In what way can it be 'better', if it doesn't make sense to you?
What I just told you, in detail, is something that works for me -- that indeed was revelatory for me when I discovered it for myself -- and I'm a quite expert player, so it's not just bullshit. (What would be my motive to bullshit you all here? What could I *possibly* gain?)
But of course, the most important thing is, *how* doesn't it work for you?
What you might do is *try it*, and then report what the results are. Then I might be able to help you do better -- or not.
Did you try it? Did you try it more than once? Can you do the 'magic diminuendo', for example?
>It is still a matter of stabilizing the> abdominal/pelvic musculature so pressure and airflow can only> go out the horn.>
You'll have to explain that, because it means nothing to me.
Tony
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