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Re: The worst advice EVER

Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2018-08-17 17:42

I've often giving the relax and open your throat advise many times but would follow it up with examples and try this try that. Just giving a statement without explanation or follow up doesn't always work.
My worse advise came from Joe Allard, my bass clarinet teacher for about 6 months He asked me to bring my clarinet in once and asked me about how I was tonguing. After a few minutes he tried to explain and show me how to raise my tongue up higher and back so I'd hit the reed more at the tip. His studio was in Manhattan, I lived in the Bronx. I went home thinking why my clarinet teacher, Leon Russianoff never said anything to "correct" my tonguing. Then I found out. I got home and tried to play in my "new tongue position" and could hardly get a note out, the air was backing up and the more I tried the more frustration it got and I couldn't get back to my "normal" position. So in panic I called him and told him what was going on. He told me to come back to his studio which of course i did. Ater a few minutes he looked in my mouth and diagnosed what he saw. He told me my tongue was to "thick or long", can't remember which or even both. Somehow he got me back to normal and apologized and sent me on my way back home. By the way, Allard was a good teacher, very helpful with voicing the bass clarinet and 'relax your throat" was a big thing with him. Knowing about different tongue sizes helped me with a great many students later knowing that everyone can't play the same way to acheive the goal needed.

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Post Edited (2018-08-28 15:58)

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