Klarinet Archive - Posting 001381.txt from 1998/10

From: Tski1128@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] double lip embouchure
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 19:37:29 -0500

Hi my name is Tom (everyone say's Hi tom) and I play double lip. I started
playing double lip with my first teacher, Chris wolfe (Eb Clar Baltimore Sym).
He always played that way, on Eb&Bb. So when I started with my second teacher,
Ignatius Gennnusa, and heard the sound he got with the double there was no way
I was going to switch to single. Over the years in the Us Army Field Band I've
noticed that my endurance hasn't been that different from the single lip
players in the band. I've played solos (standing up, strapless) the only
difference is my top lip gets tired instead of the bottom. There is one trend
that I've noticed. The kind of mouthpiece reed combo that those of us that
play double tend to use, is generally different. Whenever I've tried setups
of other double lippers I've felt that I could almost play a gig on their
stuff. This has never been true of single lip setups that I've tried. This
would be an interesting question to the board. What setups are the double
lippers playing?? Here's an interesting statistic out of 13 clarinetists in
the US Army Field Band only 2 of us play double.

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