Klarinet Archive - Posting 000186.txt from 2003/09

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] embouchure
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 12:14:37 -0400

Noel Taylor wrote:

> it would appear that my own tongue position
> is more or less standard for the double lip
> technique

Tongue position is controlled in significant part by the size of your
tongue and the geometry of your oral cavity (including your teeth).
This is one of the dangers of dividing things into 'categories' with
boundaries that (allegedly) shouldn't be crossed. Do all (say) French
clarinetists have the same size of mouth, teeth, and tongue?

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