Klarinet Archive - Posting 000685.txt from 1998/11

From: Lee Hickling <hickling@-----.Net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Double rip embouchure
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 15:32:44 -0500

Dustin Ruffell wrote:
>I was told Benny Goodman switched to double lip embouchure half way
>through his career.

Gee, I only saw him in person once, but I've seen all the movies he
appeared in, and his embouchure was always single lip. He did change his
embouchure when he got into playing classical music, string quintets and
the like, but I don't believe he went to a double lip embouchure. The main
change I remember was that he began to hold his clarinet at a much more
normal angle, 35 to 40 degrees to his body. His tone became much less
brilliant and trumpet-like. It was no longer the old exciting and
distinctive Goodman sound that I used to try to copy (and failed).

Lee Hickling <hickling@-----.net>

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