Klarinet Archive - Posting 000143.txt from 1996/03

From: Ray Deck <gemdex@-----.NET>
Subj: Double Tounging Revisited
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 21:37:03 -0500

I've read the Pino section on double tounging, and I've read the
messages in this list, but I'm still not getting the picture. First off,
as a intermediate player trying to learn double tounging, if I do it
right will it be natural, or is it something that starts very slowly and
builds up? I'm trying the duddle and tuttle "methods" without huge
success, the closest I can get is a kind of erratic fluttertongue, which
isn't very useful. Even if I got double tounging up to the speed of my
single tounging would be very satisfying...I'm using a B45 mouthpiece if
that makes any difference, and my current perception of the double tongue
concept is "tudludludludl" in the very tip of my tongue, but it's
extremely difficult to stop the sound on the way up and down
consistently, so I assume I'm doing something wrong.

-charles decKf