Klarinet Archive - Posting 000959.txt from 2004/10

From: "Forest Aten" <forestaten@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Doubling
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 09:25:12 -0500


Whatever differing thoughts we all hold on this question, it is worth
remembering that one has to pitch 'up' to the note to hold a correct
clarinet embouchure, and one has to pitch 'down' to the note for saxophone.

Not for me Tony.....and I double a lot.

Pitching down normally requires a different shape for the lips to assume - O
shape, as opposed to <> (for clarinet). So I would imagine this would in the
eyes of most cause us to think that the embouchure formation is different.
It may not be strictly different tho` in as much as the two different lip
shapes are only compensating for the differing amounts of available (and
inaccurate?) latitudes which different shape bores want to give us -
parallel, conical etc. One surely cannot have the 'same' embouchure for all
species of clarinets and saxophones. There simply 'has' to be some
adjustment as one increases the amount of doubling involved.

Perhaps an interesting observation...

My perception about embouchure from one instrument to another, is
that my embouchure feels the same. It may differ to some degree...but
only in small subtle ways. Ways so subtle that I don't notice them any
longer when I change instruments.

Forest Aten

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