Klarinet Archive - Posting 000068.txt from 1997/10

From: "L. BORCHERT" <lborcher@-----.Edu>
Subj: Re: Embouchure pedagogy
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 20:04:51 -0400

On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Anthony G. Taylor wrote:

> I have a new student who has been taught a "smiley" type embouchure and I
> am introducing him to a more upper-lip involved embouchure, a Robert
> Marcellus style embouchure, more or less. Of course, what I teach is a
> hodge-podge of Marcellus and other influences, but it is based on
> Marcellus's hybrid of double-lip and single-lip embouchures.
>
> My new student is very talented, but is suspicious of this new embouchure.
> Does anyone know any reading materials that I could give him to read, to
> explain it from another perspective than my own? Books, articles,
> whatever...
>
> --Anthony Taylor
>
>