Klarinet Archive - Posting 000701.txt from 2000/05

From: avrahm galper <agalper@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Embouchure again
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 11:58:34 -0400

This was written to me, many years ago, by Brian Manton-Myatt, the chief
clarinet designer at B&H.

Both my Masters: Francisco Gomez, and dear old Papa
Henri Selmer told me never to employ any other method except that of
closing the lips onto the mouthpiece as though one was going to say a
word beginning with the letter M, but as tightly as to bring the top lip
down sufficiently to avoid contacting the top of the mouthpiece at all,
so that although the lip was never between the teeth and the mouthpiece,
it was braced by the labial muscle to a sufficient degree of firmness to
avoid absolutely any risk of the teeth ever touching the top of the
mouthpiece.

All my playing life, I have never touched the top of the mouthpiece with
my teeth, and as a consequence, I have never once experienced embouchure
fatigue, by equally, I have never bitten on my top lip.
--
Avrahm Galper
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