Klarinet Archive - Posting 000424.txt from 2000/05

From: "Emily S" <harvinet@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] The perfect Clarinet embouchure
Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 18:21:55 -0400

Teachers are very opinionated. That's their job. Even if they're wrong.
;)-

>From: "Kevin Callahan" <kionon@-----.com>
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] The perfect Clarinet embouchure
>Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 09:18:12 PDT
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>>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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