Klarinet Archive - Posting 001066.txt from 2002/11

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] Introducing tonguing - was "teaching clarinet"
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 19:52:46 -0500

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charlie White [mailto:charliewhite@-----.net]
>
> I am going to display my ignorance: - -
>
> I have been reading all the posting about tonguing and tonguing
> techniques. I
> am curious, why tongue in the first place?

Because using your leg to start and stop notes is too hard?

;^)

But, in reality, music is not only made up of notes which "flow" into one
another with no interruption (legato) - there are notes which are distinctly
separated in the intervals between adjacent notes (rests, staccato), and
something I've been taught as "legato tonguing", where the is no real time
duration between notes but each one is tongued to ensure that it starts "on
pitch" and distinct. The tongue is a handy human apparatus that can aid in
the starting and stopping of the reed.

Then you insert some significant amount of time to "train" the tongue and
its relationship to fingers and the music ...

and you have "tonguing".

Mark C.

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