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Author: Rick2
Date: 2000-01-28 03:01
This is mostly to the old hands here on the board. I'm wondering exactly where your tongue hits the reed? Do you strike the very tip or are you laying it along the bottom of the reed?
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Author: Dee
Date: 2000-01-28 03:18
Except for special effects, you never hit or strike the reed. Proper tonguing is accomplished by actually starting with the tongue already on the reed and then pulling it away to initiate the sound. To terminate the sound, you place the tongue back on the reed. The technique generally recommended is the tip of the tongue to the tip of the reed. Now this is not touching the end of the reed as it is thin enough to hurt. You touch just back of the end a fraction.
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Author: Arnold the basset hornist
Date: 2000-01-28 06:58
Once ago, I tried to measure this on my basset horn, using one of my "standard mouthpieces", a mouthpiece with a long faceing length (28 mm). The result was: I touch approximately the area from the tip to 11 mm from the tip (during the "no sound phase", off course). Don't ask me, at which point I pressed most resp. least.
Arnold, the basset hornist
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Author: Graham Elliott
Date: 2000-01-28 10:52
In my case, fairly far down the blade of the tongue touching a fair way down from the tip of the reed. This only works if the tongue is well forward in the mouth, and this may mean the tip of the tongue touches the back of the lower teeth. I think most people reject this approach, but it works far better for me than the tip of the tongue on the tip of the reed. The whole approach affects the sound, not just when tongueing, and may change the tuning behaviour if you change over from a 'tip-to-tip' approach.
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Author: John
Date: 2000-01-28 14:18
I play pretty much tip-to-tip as it gives me a clearer start to each note. I think it has a lot to do with each person's mouth-, teeth-, and tongue size. We are all wonderously different in those respects so the best way is what works and doesn't hinder the goal: music.
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Author: Ray Swing
Date: 2000-01-28 15:06
Basically Tip to Tip. Haven't really measured it, but believe it is almost right on the tip.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2000-01-28 19:21
I must analyze just how I tongue, believe it to be tip of T back slightly from reed tip. Been trying to fix leaks on an alto sax, diff. embo? Don
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Author: Ginger Martin
Date: 2000-01-29 01:49
The higher the note- the more "under the tongue" I play. I think this has to do with good throat shape for the altissimo range. The JUST under side of my tongue hits the tip of the reed.
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Author: Rick2
Date: 2000-01-29 03:10
he higher the note- the more "under the tongue" I play. I think
this has to do with good throat shape for the altissimo range.
The JUST under side of my tongue hits the tip of the reed.
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Interesting. I find that having my jaw inthe right position is far more important than how I tongue it. (using altis. E as the test case).
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