Klarinet Archive - Posting 000023.txt from 2000/08

From: "Benjamin Maas" <benmaas@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Anchor Tongueing - Oh Horrors!!
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 01:59:43 -0400

> -----Original Message-----
>
> I recently discovered to my sheer horror that ever since I started
> playing clarinet 3 and a half years ago I've been anchor tongueing (at
> least I think I am). The tip of my tongue actually rests inside my
> bottom lip, touching the moist, red part, and it stays there when I
> tongue. I am, in fact, touching my tongue to the reed, but further back
> from the tip. My tongueing this way is quite effective, light and
> beautiful, but I am told it's wrong and that I'll never be able to
> tongue quickly this way.

Relax... There's nothing wrong with Anchor tonguing if you can control it.
Heck, it was good enough for Peter Hadcock. That is what he did. And it
landed him in the Boston Symphony. <g>

--Ben

Benjamin Maas
Freelance Clarinetist and Recording Engineer
Los Angeles, CA
http://www.fifthcircle.com
benmaas@-----.com

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