Klarinet Archive - Posting 001330.txt from 1998/10

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Big clarinet
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 04:16:01 -0500

I tend to use double-lip these days, as I have tooth problems. It can be
hard to hit on a good double-lip embouchure; comfort is not a good guide,
as what seems O.K. on the lower notes and feels comfortable can let you
down badly in the altissimo register.
Roger Shilcock

On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Christina K. Loy wrote:

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