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Re: Weak embouchure.open or close mouthpiece?

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2014-10-27 00:23

If you are interested more in a standard classical clarinet timbre, I'd easily recommend going the smaller tip opening route. They are easier to control. That is, pitch and timbre from note to note and from register to register are easier to maintain.

No mouthpiece will substitute for training (practicing) correctly in the proper production of air or maintaining a good embouchure. Just keep in mind that there is, in my opinion, a minimum amount of air pressure that you need to maintain in your oral cavity to produce a good resonant sound. I draw the analogy to a bicycle inner tube. You get that by actively pushing air out using your core (abdominal muscles).

................Paul Aviles

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