Klarinet Archive - Posting 001286.txt from 1998/10

From: "Kevin Fay (LCA)" <kevinfay@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Big clarinet
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 14:08:32 -0500

Patrick J. (Pat) Flannery wrote:

<<<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.>>>

Hmmm . . . I guess this means that Harold Wright (who used double lip much
of the time) and Elsa Ludwig-Vedehr need to grow up. I should be so
"young!"

Personally, I use double lip infrequently--mostly soft orchestral passages.
It's a great check to make sure your embouchure is correctly formed,
however, even if you use single-lip all the time (IMHO, of course).

kjf

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