Klarinet Archive - Posting 000388.txt from 2000/05

From: "Kevin Callahan" <kionon@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] The perfect Clarinet embouchure
Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 12:18:12 -0400

>From: Tski1128@-----.com
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: [kl] The perfect Clarinet embouchure
>Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 22:23:11 EDT
>
>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!
>

I discovered this on my own and was "corrected!" The clarinet teacher told
me to use a single lip even though I sound better with a double lip. I have
been ignoring that direction and playing on a double lip anyway. I have
better breath control, have yet to bite a reed, and my volume range is
larger.

Kevin Callahan
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