Klarinet Archive - Posting 000129.txt from 1998/02

From: Shouryu Nohe <jnohe@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Dis/Advantages to the Double Neck
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 01:07:06 -0500

> I think this is the key......you tongue the the tip of the reed, just
> fruther up on the tongue. Would I be correct in stating then that the tip
> of your tongue is further down the reed when you say it is the reed that
> is futher up on the tongue? We are saying, basically the same thing.
> Semantics aside, you do not tongue tip to tip all the time - at least
> that is what it says above - right?

I suppose. Here's the deal: on forzandos, I touch the tip of the reed
a little further up on my tongue. Everything else, including regular ol'
fortissimos, I touch the very tip of my tongue to the very tip (edge) or
my reed.

Hope that clarifies it. ^_^

Shouryu Nohe
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