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Ancient Mouthpieces

Author: Late_returner
Date: 2018-07-31 13:46

Purely for interest sake I am puzzled with trying to understand how people worked ( ? still do ? ) with reed -on -top mouthpieces.
I assume the top lip did the work we use the bottom lip for, but also ...
1/ is the beak cut the other way ?
2/ does the tongue have to curl up and over in order to strike the reed downwards ?
3/ can a high back tongue be maintained ?
4/ was this also the time when "reeds" were not add ons but thin slivers of the intrinsic mp wood ?
5/ was reed on top, reed part of mp, the method used that so delighted Mozart in clarinet playing ?
6/ when did we change ?
If anyone could explain I would be most grateful.

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