Klarinet Archive - Posting 000182.txt from 2003/09
From: "Forest Aten" <forestaten@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] embouchure
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 09:50:24 -0400
Noel,
Wow...what bizarre drawings. Not such useful information on embouchure to be
found on the site.
Forest Aten
----- Original Message -----
From: "Noel Taylor" <r.n.taylor@-----.uk>
Subject: [kl] embouchure
I've been reading many of the very expert descriptions about the position of
the lips and the tongue in recent weeks - hoping to rebuild my embouchure a
little and improve other areas of technique - and it's left me a little
confused. Some, for instance, have advocated tonguing from tongue tip to
read tip whilst others have provided slightly conflicting descriptions. In
my own case, using the double lip technique, my tongue just doesn't seem to
fit into a position where it can play exactly tip to tip with any comfort or
assurance. Today I found this web page -
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Palace/5825/embouchure.htm
and, to me, it seems to make very clear why I am getting those conflicting
messages, and provides extremely clear advice that I can follow if I wish.
My assumption is that the conflicting information in the posts stems from
the undocumented differences in technique - described in terms of French,
American or German technique in this article - used by the person posting.
At the risk of renewing a subject that comes up on the list as regularly as
the tide I wonder if list members might comment on any flaws or otherwise -
in this article. If I follow the advice in the article it would appear that
my own tongue position is more or less standard for the double lip
technique, and yet following posts to the list I have been trying - if the
article is accurate - to adjust my tongue position as if I was using a
single lip embouchure.
Noel Taylor
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Klarinet is supported by Woodwind.Org, http://www.woodwind.org/
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Klarinet is supported by Woodwind.Org, http://www.woodwind.org/
