Klarinet Archive - Posting 000283.txt from 1997/10

From: avrahm galper <agalper@-----.com>
Subj: Take another Peek
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 18:43:22 -0400

Take another Peek!
I have had some inquiries about a section of the posting "take a peek"
It has to do with how to see what the pupil is doing when they are
tonguing.
Hold the pupil's chin with the forefinger of your hand; place the thumb
on the mouthpiece.
Then ask the pupil to open the mouth. The only section they can open
would be the upper section, since you, the teacher, are holding the chin
and the mouthpiece.
Then ask the pupil to make as if they are tonguing. It will only take a
few seconds for them to understand how to do this. Sort of a silent
tonguing.
With the mouth thus open, one can readily see what part of the tongue
they are using and how.
Most of the trouble I have seen comes from withdrawing the tongue INTO
the mouth.
In other words, touching the tip of the mouthpiece and reed with the tip
of the tongue, and then withdrawing INTO the mouth.
The tongue should really have an up and down movement. To the reed and
down from the reed.
Almost like what one thinks anchor tonguing is.
There can always be variances. But that is basically the answer.
Avrahm Galper

   
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