Klarinet Archive - Posting 001410.txt from 1998/10

From: Note Staff Unlimited <notestaff@-----.ch>
Subj: Re: [kl] double lip embouchure
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 15:40:06 -0500

klarinet@-----.org schrieb:

> 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.
>
> Hi Tom (I said it too!). I play a medium to close German mpce with - of course -
> resonance spectral tuning (nothing to do with double lip). I think the set up is
> more or less the same as when I would play single lip. However there are surely
> those single-lippers which use slightly scraped down wooden toothbrushes for
> reeds and turn their mouth into a vice which isn't really possible with double
> lip.

DavidDavid Glenn
notestaff@-----.ch

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