Klarinet Archive - Posting 000011.txt from 2003/02

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] double- lipping
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 12:45:54 -0500

THis could be the case - it could also be the case that your playing
sounds better to yourself because the sound is transmitted via
different routes.
Roger S;

In message <OPEPKFIHJIJFGEJLJHOCMEMNCPAA.infodev@-----.org writes:
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bruce McGarvey [mailto:infodev@-----.net]
> > Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 6:43 PM
> > To: klarinet@-----.org
> > Subject: RE: [kl] double- lipping
> > <snip>
> > > I am
> > > aware of tonal advantages D/L players enjoy
> > <snip>
> >
> > I wonder about these "tonal advantages."
>
> <snip>
>
> > I don't remember who said it--maybe it was Pino, another author,
> > or someone
> > on the list--but, at least in my case, the statement that, given a
> > "reasonable" embouchure, it isn't the lips but the air flow and throat
> > cavity that makes the difference seems to be correct.
>
> <snip>
>
> I stopped too short before, and while I was checking Pino's book afterward,
> I realized that some things that I should have been mentioned weren't:
>
> The double-embouchure may cause you to change your oral cavity and your
> lower lips--especially opening your throat, dropping your jaw, and easing
> the muscle tension of your lower lip-- such that there might be a
> significant difference in sound. However, it's not the lip on top of the
> mouthpiece that's doing it, it's the change in other parts of your
> embouchure: your lower lip, throat, and maybe breathing.
>
> I suspect that the reason I, myself, don't sound much different with either
> embouchure is that my single-lip embouchure is formed with rounded lips--the
> "ooo" embouchure instead of the French-style "smile" embouchure (lips pulled
> back, lower lip a tighter band across the reed), so there's not much of a
> difference when I go to the double embouchure. But I can imagine that there
> might be quite a difference when someone using the smile embouchure suddenly
> loosens up on the reed with the lower lip, moves the corners of the mouth
> forward some, and opens up the throat more because of the extra meat between
> the teeth and the mouthpiece on the top. At any rate, if you really do get a
> better sound using the double-lip embouchure, my guess is that it's not the
> extra lip, it's other things that are happening that can be "trained in" to
> a single-lip embouchure.
>
> I'm in for another two cents.
>
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