Klarinet Archive - Posting 000375.txt from 2000/05

From: Tski1128@-----.com
Subj: [kl] The perfect Clarinet embouchure
Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 22:23:11 -0400

The perfect Clarinet embouchure:
A. Uses both lips (top and bottom)
B. exerts minimal (in my opinion close to non existent) pressure on the reed.
C. Has more reed in the mouth than many people would think
D. and isn't much different from a good sax embouchure (I wimp out and use
the top teeth on Sax)

OK This is double lip: I will make this totally bold statement: If there is a
teacher out there.......
Next student that walks in your door that has never played the clarinet,
Start them on double lip in a week they will SOUND better then students
playing six months to a year. They will never learn how to bite. Their
throats will open to a better sounding position. Double lip is so much easier
than single lip to learn, that I am amazed that more people don't play that
way!

Tom Puwalski (the artist formerly known as Sarge)
PS I had a 2 HR Brahms Sonata rehearsal this morning, A bar Mitzvah with my
klezmer Band in the afternoon (4hrs) and a 2 HR concert with a Ragtime band
this evening. And Both my lips feel fine!

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