Robert Patterson wrote:
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 7:47 PM, dhbailey
<[email protected]> 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
[snip]
I was watching them -- and some of them were my private
students (it was an All-State piece) and we had discussed
what the instructions said, which was "remove mouthpiece and
blow air through the instrument." So I knew in advance what
was coming, and then watching the concert, there were no
reversed mouthpieces, which would have required a hand up
near the mouth in addition to the hand holding the
instrument -- quite an easy thing to see, even if it were
done in a large symphony hall by professionals. The posture
when holding an instrument in one hand and a mouthpiece in
the other hand so that the two line up is quite different
than the posture when holding the instrument in the
traditional way. Try it and you'll see that you quite
recognizably have changed your posture.
--
David H. Bailey
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