Klarinet Archive - Posting 001285.txt from 1998/10

From: "Christina K. Loy" <secondtimearound@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Big clarinet
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 14:06:41 -0500

I, too, was startled to see the posting regarding double-lip embouchure. What
Dee says must, most certainly, be true because I cannot even produce one note
using this method!

Dee D. Hays wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pat Flannery <pjfnefro@-----.edu>
> To: klarinet@-----.org>
> Date: Thursday, October 29, 1998 12:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [kl] Big clarinet
>
> > ...I'm so glad to see someone else on this list extole the benefits of
> >double-lip. I've been told all my life (well, at least the portion devoted
> >to clarinet) that "real" clarinetists "outgrow" a double-lip embouchere. I
> >use double-lip on soprano and bass and have since day one. Single-lip just
> >never felt comfortable and just didn't give me the results I was looking
> >for.
>
> Whoever told you that certainly never bothered to check on the history of
> double lip. There have been fine professional clarinettists who use the
> double lip embouchure by choice. And of course in the early history of the
> clarinet when it was played reed UP, you had to use a double lip (I have
> never been able to figure out how they tongued notes though).
>
> While I am not personally comfortable with double lip on a regular basis, I
> use it occasionally in practice just to check and make sure that I am not
> getting into the bad habits of biting or pinching or conversely a "lazy"
> embouchure. The single lip makes it easy to compensate for a number of bad
> habits. The double lip shows up one's flaws immediately.
>
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