Klarinet Archive - Posting 000245.txt from 1996/07

From: "Fogle, Bill" <bill.fogle@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Double Lip Discussion
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 20:40:04 -0400

Don wrote about double-lip and single-lip playing:

>The bottom line was that, with single lip, I was hearing a lot of
vibrations
>through the upper teeth via bone conduction to my ears internally. With
>double lip, I heard mostly via the ear externally, i. e., as others would
>hear me.

That's the main difference. Sound-wise, there is no difference. There
*is* a difference in control/physical manipulation. Sometimes the
difference is bad, like tonguing in the upper reg., sometimes
it's good, like an increased ability to "open up."

>So - Bill - I wonder if your views of double vs. single are colored by
what
>*you* think you sound like, as opposed to what other people hear when you
>play.

Probably. My decision is a "physical" one. Double-lip is
a kind of habit. I'm stuck. I'd have to retrain to play single-lip. I do
like the "manipulation" aspects (see above) of double-lipping, though.

>By the way, I certainly think I could
>be just as "piercing" with double as with single!.

Yeah, you're right. But you'd have to work harder to do it : )
----Bill Fogle.