Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2017-10-31 06:03
I self-teach. I switched to double-lip about 5-6 years ago. I experimented with it a few times but when it quickly hurt I'd switch back to single-lip. During one experimental phase I noticed how natural double-lip had come to feel, and how I was picking up my horn and using both lips without thinking about it. So I decided to stick with it. Eventually the upper lip got calloused and stopped hurting.
A couple subjective observations. With double-lip my sound feels more controllable, in part because articulation also feels more natural. I feel like I can vary the start and end of notes fluently, and hit any note with good immediacy. I feel like I can tongue consistently faster. It seems like I can feel the part of the sound that's made by the clarinet vibrating and really bring it out, and also feel the parts of the sound that are me and inside me vibrating, and bring those out too. These are subjective, meaning, I can't really account for them, and maybe they're real or maybe they wouldn't hold up under direct measurement or 3rd-party evaluation.
Anyway, double-lip feels right for me. (R13, M13 Lyre, Vandoren purple-box 5's)
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