On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 7:47 PM, dhbailey <dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com> wrote: > > Perhaps the effect differs with different numbers of people doing it, but > I've heard it done quite effectively without anybody reversing mouthpieces. > >
So help me to understand. You are sitting in the audience of a large hall listening to an ensemble with a large number of players. How do you know whether they were reversing their mouthpieces? I ask in all seriousness, because many players do it automatically. The fact is, as a player you have to do *something* if you want the effect to be heard, because freely blowing through the instrument does not produce enough sound to be heard over much more than a harp, and then at short distance. So you have to leak or obstruct to create a sound. Reversing the mouthpiece provides better control of both timbre and dynamic. I feel I should come to the defense of my colleague. He was not being particularly uncooperative. I'm fairly certain his comments were the result of being asked to make more sound with the effect. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
