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 Embouchure
Author: skip 
Date:   2007-07-30 15:54

Does any one know of a diagram or picture on the correct way to hold a clarinet to get a correct embouchure. Or is this just a personal thing for individual?

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 Re: Embouchure
Author: hajduk 
Date:   2007-07-30 16:19

Are you a clarinet player already?
I would advice you to go to a good teacher, who could teach you how to develop your embouchure!
It's quite a process of training to get it right, things you learn the wrong way might be difficult to correct later on!
(Excuse me for my poor English!! ;))

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 Re: Embouchure
Author: Tony Pay 2017
Date:   2007-07-31 12:30

It's not a diagram or a picture, but Carmine Campione's article is very good. I talked about one aspect of it in:

http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=20&i=744&t=744

...you might find the discussion illuminates Campione's article.

By the way, the webpage on which the article appears has been revamped, so the link in my post above doesn't work. Go to the home page:

http://www.clarinet-saxophone.asn.au

...and follow the link to 'articles'. The pdf of Campione's article is on the second page.

Tony

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 Re: Embouchure
Author: Iceland clarinet 
Date:   2007-07-31 16:35

I like to think of the embouchure like Jack Brymer does in his book The clarinet as it's breathing,blowing,stomach muscules etc and how you form your mouth and how all work in harmony.

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 Re: Embouchure
Author: Tony Pay 2017
Date:   2007-08-01 14:58

Iceland clarinet wrote:

>> I like to think of the embouchure like Jack Brymer does in his book The clarinet[.]>>

Well, Brymer says that things other than the lips are important, and in the service of this idea, he prefers to use the term 'embouchure' in a more general way -- to include, for instance, mouth resonance. (Indeed, he suggests ironically that the term 'labiture' would be more appropriate for discussion of the function merely of the lips.)

But this is a very general problem that applies to ANY analysis. Analysis divides up the world in an arbitrary way, and then describes the relationship between the two or more parts created by the division. Its only justification is that a useful insight turns out to be generated by that particular division.

In this case, just one useful insight is generated by separating out the role played by the lips from the role played by other parts of the system.

It is that the lower lip must be capable both of exerting pressure on the reed, AND of damping its vibrations selectively. Moreover, that capability must be precisely variable over short time-scales. Any 'labiture' that enables THAT is an acceptable one.

Once such a 'labiture' is established, the player is free to go on and combine it with the other variables -- which you can include under the term 'embouchure' if you like. The article by Campione, and several of my own posts, explain why some characteristics of the labiture are forced by the criteria of acceptability described above.

Tony



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