Klarinet Archive - Posting 000175.txt from 1997/10

From: the Grouch <d-grouch@-----.net>
Subj: Re: All this talk of articulation
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 22:17:29 -0400

-- [ From: the Grouch * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] --

> 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.
>
Whoops! Now it's a saxophone question, but perhaps some of the Klarinet
people have an answer.

Differing instructors have told me that one should tongue the clarinet with
the tip of the tongue to the tip of the reed/mouthpiece. But that with the
saxophone, especially the tenor, the proper procedure is to tongue using the
area just back of the tip, still touching the tip of the reed. The
explanation given had to do with the size of the respective mouthpieces and
the amount of mouthpiece placed in the mouth.
--
Wm Laubengayer
Credibility is far more important than Capability