Klarinet Archive - Posting 001047.txt from 2002/11

From: Eric Dannewitz <ericdano@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Introducing tonguing - was "teaching clarinet"
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 02:55:58 -0500

Well, there are a LOT of ways to tongue a note. I probably would mean to
close the open with the tongue and the reed. Meaning the tongue comes up
on the reed and presses it closed.

But there are other ways of doing it......

Karl Krelove wrote:

>My voice teacher in college 35 years ago used a similar analogy, aiming to
>get me to keep the air flowing while I interrupted it with tongued or labial
>consonants. The point seemed to be that the air pressure needed to be
>interrupted at the front of the mouth, not back at the musculature that's
>used to expel the air from the lungs (we don't use the valve at the wall, or
>try to have the water company turn the pump on and off in the illustration,
>we shut the water off while it's still under pressure at the hose nozzle).
>This actually kind of worked for me, although I was used to the idea from
>having studied clarinet and simply was not applying it carefully enough (I
>suppose) to singing.
>
>That said, I'm not sure, Eric, what you meant when you wrote "When you want
>to tongu[e], you close the opening with your tongu[e]...." Do you actually
>block the opening between the reed and the tip rail with your tongue? Or do
>you press the reed hard enough that it completely closes against the rail?
>Could you clarify a bit?
>
>Karl Krelove
>
>
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