Klarinet Archive - Posting 000453.txt from 2001/03

From: Cindy Christensen <cindy@-----.de>
Subj: [kl] Re: embouchure woes
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 15:24:06 -0500

Form your lips like as if you're putting chapstick on the lower lip.
Cindy

> I am not sure it makes much sense without the pictures, but instead of
> pulling the corners of the mouth out in a smile (which is what I was taught
> in the late 1950s) the corners are drawn in as if you were making an "oo"
> sound.
>
> Gary
>
> At 12:17 PM 3/17/01, you wrote:
>> Gary,
>>
>> This sounds like a book I should have! In the meantime, is there any way you
>> can explain briefly his main point? I actually don't think of smiling when
>> I play, but the muscles around the mouth still need to support the reed, and
>> some of these muscles are the ones that also are involved in smiling. So I
>> was making reference to what muscles seem to get fatigued earliest, rather
>> than my style of embouchure. However, I can try to pay attention to whether
>> in fact I can smile less and thereby reduce fatigue in these muscles.
>>
>> Stewart

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