Klarinet Archive - Posting 000559.txt from 2001/11

From: Alexander Brash <mactrek@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Fun with Double Lip
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 11:18:35 -0500

Hey,
After attending a Ricardo Morales master class the other week, I started
playing double lip on some long tones to get a feel for embochure pressure.
Apparantely, if one can't play double lip for more than a few minutes
without killing their lip, then their normal embochure is too tight. It's
certainly helped me obtain a more "correct" single lip embochure, and
improve the richness of my tones.

~Alexander

> From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 09:10:56 +0000 (GMT)
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Fun with Double Lip
>
> When I had to change back to double lip for dental reasons, I found that
> I had to pay much more attention to what my right thumb was doing. It
> could even be the case that it has only now become important that
> your thumbrest is slightly too low.
> Roger S.
>
>
>
>
> In message <B819DB91.AB0%dotcalm@-----.org writes:
>> Hello clarinet fans:
>> Just another observation and question from one of the "corps of returning
>> clarinetists". I have noticed that I generate a noticeably smoother and
>> sweeter sound if I play double lip. It seems to help "open" my oral cavity.
>> That's the good news. The bad news is that as I play double lip, my upper
>> lip starts to slip off the mouthpiece with associated strange results
>> (Nothing like going from double lip to single lip in the middle of a
>> passage; talk about special effects ;-).
>>
>> At any rate, I was wondering if this is a unique experience, and if not,
>> what to do about it. It has dawned on me that applying a regular 'ole tooth
>> guard to the top of the mouthpiece would help in providing some additional
>> friction to help keep the mouthpiece in place.
>>
>> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mitch
>>
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> --
> It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always,
> with the generality of mankind, have the preference over the accurate
> and abstruse...
> --- D. Hume ("An enquiry concerning human understanding," I)
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