Klarinet Archive - Posting 000173.txt from 1997/10

From: Karl Krelove <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: Re: All this talk of articulation
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 21:58:00 -0400

At 11:23 AM 10/6/97 -0500, vjupton@-----.edu wrote:
>Anchor tounging is when the large flat part of your tongue comes in contact
>with the reed rather than the pointed tip of the tongue.
>
At 1:49 PM (EDT) 10/6/97, Antoine Clark wrote:
>... anchor tounging is when you tounge goes into the lip rather
>then touching the reed.
>
At 2:37 PM (CDT) 10/6/97, Roger Garrett wrote:
>As long as the tip is anchored behind the lower teeth. If it is not, you
>can't really call it anchor tonguing....just tonguing down the tongue
>further!

In case anyone missed it, these three messages (which ironically came from
my server in the same mail batch) pretty clearly illustrate why so many
totally opposite reactions came in regarding "anchor tonguing." Everyone
who commented is not necessarily talking about the same technique. Nor, I
suspect, is everyone talking about the same thing when they refer to "tip
to tip" or "standard" or "normal" tonguing. Not a criticism of anyone, just
a passing notice that very often these debates are generated not by the
technical issues we think we're discussing, but by lack of clarity in the
use of terms. Sometimes the shorthand that we think everyone understands
turns out not to be nearly so universally understood after all.

There is a world of difference between "..flat part of your tongue comes in
contact
with the reed rather than the pointed tip of the tongue.." and "...when you
tounge goes into the lip rather then touching the reed."

Karl