Me = amateur
You = experts
My Generation C + enormous amounts of air to make second octave solid = loud
Is this equation accurate or is it my whistle (or me) that is in error;) BTW, this is not an issue with my Generation D - which is quite an effortless beauty.
Cheers,
PR
It might be your whistle (C’s are bigger than
D’s and take more air, second octave takes more
air than first, and is louder…)
It might be your technique… blowing too hard
or too soft gives overtones from the previous or next octave which makes it both sound bad and sound loud, but you sound like you’ve found the ‘sweet spot’ of tone…
One thing that I think helps is that when you’re going into the second octave, narrow the channel your mouth makes, shaping your tongue and cheeks to make a narrow ‘tube’; this way, you get fast, high-pressure air without as much added volume. (It’s supposedly the air-pressure that changes the tone, which usually equates to blowing harder, but I think narrowing the mouth gives an extra boost of speed to the air so that not as much volume is required…) Anyway, the why of that might be wrong but I’ve certainly noticed that my second octave has become a lot less piercing since I started playing it that way.
Parity None
[ This Message was edited by: Parity on 2002-04-23 17:22 ]