| Abstrakt: |
Teachers and performers are becoming increasingly aware of the influences of mouth and throat cavities in sound production on wind instruments. Experimenters have tended to overlook or minimize this factor in measuring other variables, particularly in attempts at synthetic tone production in wind instruments. This study documents the actual practice of performers through a study of 35 highly skilled and experienced musicians of The U. S. Navy Band. Embouchure placement, as equated to vowel formations, is related to the ease and quality of sound production in high, middle, and low tones in several reed and brass wind instruments, as determined by individual and group subjective judgment. Results indicate a satisfying consistency of methods among performers; and the necessity for varying the size of mouth cavity for proper artistic tone production in high and low registers. A better understanding of this factor should be pertinent to future experimental situations toward the improvement of wind instruments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
