Klarinet Archive - Posting 000149.txt from 1997/10

From: Michael Connolly <michael@-----.COM>
Subj: All this talk of articulation
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 23:28:54 -0400

All this talk of articulation has made me a little self concious. This is
because I can't really say waht kind of tonguing I do. I suspect I'm on the
anchor tonguing sie of the fence, though.

I know that if I conciously try to touch the tip of thre reed with my
tongue (what I think of as "normal tonguing"):

1. It is very difficult and seems "out of the way."

2. It can create horrific squeaks.

3. It leads to a very quick accumulation of saliva in the mouthpiece which
then rattles around.

4. On the saxophone, which I have played longer, #1 and #2 do not apply,
but #3 does, so I employ my same mystery tonguing on that instrument.

It was for these reasons that I fell into the habit of tonguing as I do. I
can't quite verbalize which part of my tongue moves, but it does serve the
purpose of tonguing and can be varied from legato to staccato.

So is that anchor tonguing?

Michael Connolly
michael@-----.com