Klarinet Archive - Posting 000207.txt from 1999/11

From: gerhardt@-----. Gerhardt)
Subj: Re: [kl] re: Double Tonguing
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 02:29:47 -0500

On Nov 5, 1:17pm, GrabnerWG@-----.com) wrote:

> I can do this sideways thing no sweat. Can't do the ta-ka, duh-guh,
> thing to save my life. Maybe I ain't made right........

Or maybe there are so many details involved in making a sound that we're just
overlooking a few of them.

One thing to check is the position of the back of your tongue, an important
factor in how effective a particular method of double-tonguing is.

For those who play with the tongue arched up--articulating as if to say
"tee"--the "tuh-kuh" (or I guess "tee-kee") method is likely to be much
easier to negotiate. The back of the tongue is already "up there" and
can stop the air stream with relatively little movement.

For embouchures that have the back of the tongue sloped more downward, the
"tuh-kuh" method can prove to be very unmanageable. There is a greater
distance that the back of the tongue must travel--both to and from the roof
of the mouth--in order to get to the "-kuh". All that movement is likely to
yield, at best, a funky-sounding "doika." (And what could be worse than a
funky doika?). For these people, exploring another method, such as David
Pino's "paintbrush", may prove to be more fruitful.

--
Scott M. Gerhardt <gerhardt@-----.com>
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