Klarinet Archive - Posting 000671.txt from 1998/11

From: Stephen Heinemann <sjh@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Double rip embouchure
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 10:06:03 -0500

>>Does anyone knows contemporary clarinettists who plays by double lip
>>embouchure? I know only two:Ralph McLane and Harold Wright.
>>
>>
>Richard Stoltzman also plays with a double lip embouchre.
>

I believe Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr (a former classmate of Stoltzman's?) does
also. That would be a couple of strong recommendations for the technique,
although it does tear apart both the upper and lower lips--hence the term
"double rip embouchure."

Steve Heinemann
Bradley University
sjh@-----.edu

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