Klarinet Archive - Posting 001388.txt from 2000/06

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Basset embouchure
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 13:03:58 -0400

Roger G. is no doubt a much better and more experienced player than I am,
but it doesn't seem very *useful* just to say that he uses the
"same" embouchure on instruments with different sizes of mouthpiece, which
clearly impinge on varying amounts of lip tissue and occupy different
sizes and shapes of space in the oral cavity. I think it might be helpful
if he explained just what he meant by "the same embouchure".
Roger S.

On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Edwin V. Lacy wrote:

> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 11:37:28 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Edwin V. Lacy <el2@-----.edu>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Basset embouchure
>
> 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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