Klarinet Archive - Posting 000165.txt from 1999/11

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Double Tonguing
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 02:29:05 -0500

On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, chi chan wrote:

> No matter you pratice with tickaticka or kicka,or wicka etc. one still
> can,t get the double tongue work, because it is a gift. If you cannot
> do it at the beginning, just well to leave it behind.

My experience is that this is not true. I think double tonguing is an
acquired or learned skill. I know that for myself it wasn't a "gift." I
worked on it for a long time before I was alble to do it well enough to
use it in actual performance.

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu

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