Klarinet Archive - Posting 001085.txt from 2002/11
From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com> Subj: Re: [kl] Tonguing --- Jack Brymer and Keith Stein Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 11:52:56 -0500
--- Tom.Henson@-----.com wrote:
> I studied with a doctoral student of Keith's and I can confirm that he used
> not the tip of the tounge, but would tounge farther back about a half inch
> from the tip. I have used this method myself, and if done properly can not
> be heard to be different from using the tip.
An entire half-inch? That seems rather a lot. What is your single-tongue
speed, and are you able to effect all manners of articulation (a) with equal
facility and clarity, (b) from feather legato to hen-peck staccatto, (c) with
equal lightness of tongue, (d) at any speed, (e) for extended durations? I
ask such a strung-out question because the true measure of a technique's merit
is its flexibility and efficacy in generating the full spectrum of possible
needed/desired effects in any given musical context. Stick out your tongue
in the mirror and touch a (clean) fork to its surface one half-inch back
from the tip. Is that where your tongue is consistently making contact
with the reed?
Neil
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