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 Re: Lightening Up My Tongue
Author: vboboe 
Date:   2006-05-22 17:12

<<assume [the] embouchure as simply as possible>>

seems like a sensible energy and effort conserving strategy to me, so why not apply this same principle to position of the tongue?

When the jaw is dropped to optimum position, the tongue's relaxed in the bottom of the mouth, but it needs more energy to lift it up against soft palate to make syllables t, l or d, or g (not inappropriate, merely a statement of physical fact)

when the reed is just between lips and not deep in mouth, the tongue doesn't need to make contact with the reed to tah-tah-tah the air-stream by flicking against the lower teeth ('slow tongue') and all this action is below the bottom blade but not necessarily touching it

however, faster tonguing needs syllables, so tongue has to reach up to the palate to form these syllables, and here tongue position varies from front (t), middle (l and d) to back (g)

As soon as the reed is rolled over deeper into mouth, though, tongue usually makes direct contact and the effect is more emphatic tonguing, including the dreaded 'thwunk', which is why using mid-mouth to back-mouth syllables produce a softer sound when reed's more in mouth
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