Klarinet Archive - Posting 001387.txt from 2000/06

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Basset embouchure
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 12:37:28 -0400

On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 rgarrett@-----.edu wrote:

> I use the same embouchure on bass clarinet that I do on clarinet.
> Same for basset horn. I never bunch the chin (unless I'm so tired I
> begin leaking air.........!).

I read a statement in a book published in London a very long time ago - in
the year 1586, to be precise. It had nothing to do with the clarinet, but
I think this might be applicable to the present question. The statement
was, "There ought to be something between staring and stone blind!" In
clarinet terms, there ought to be something between "bunched chin" and
"biting on the reed." In fact, there is a whole spectrum of degrees of
firmness of the embouchure. Perhaps it might not be out of order to
suggest that the embouchure one uses on the smaller clarinets might be
closer to one end of that spectrum than the one used on the larger
clarinets.

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu

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