Klarinet Archive - Posting 000694.txt from 1998/11

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Double rip embouchure
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 07:51:06 -0500

At 01:08 PM 11/18/98, Lee Hickling wrote:
>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).
>
As I understand it, he started doing the double lip thing in the 1950's,
while studying under Reginald Kell.

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