Author: DaphnisetChloe
Date: 2015-01-23 03:34
For the last three weeks I have been experimenting with double-lip embouchure, inspired by reading about and listening to recordings of such legendary players as Harold Wright, Ralph Mclane, Gino Cioffi, and Gaston Hamelin, who all played this way. While I don't think I will play with this as my standard embouchure, I found practicing with double-lip for a few hours a day improved the sound I produce with my normal (single-lip) embouchure.
Anyway, this makes me very interested in the wide variety of different embouchures the leading players of yesterday and today successfully play(ed) with. For those of you who who have studied with leading professionals/are leading professionals, what embouchure do you use and advocate/your teacher used and advocated?
As a student, I play with the embouchure that my teacher Peter Jenkin (principal clarinet, Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra) plays with and advocates, which is a 'smile' type embouchure (flat, pointed chin, corners of mouth pinned back against the top teeth in an upwards direction, clarinet at around a 30 degree angle from body, standard amount of mouthpiece taken into mouth).
I'm just very curious, as it seems each different embouchure has its own pros and cons, and by exploring the different ones that 'work' so to speak, great improvements in sound can be made.
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