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Re: Anchor tonguing

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2019-10-23 21:12

Forgive me - What is an "Anchor tongue?" Your tongue is on the reed? Tongues do have a mind of their own sometimes! Ever go to the dentist and when they work on you your tongue seems to follow wherever they seem to be working on that tooth or the area of cleaning your teeth.

You were with Forrest a very long time. Surprised this problem wasn't corrected with your lower lip too. He was known as a teacher that got his students through all of the music needed to advance in their careers. Very technical type of a teacher. To me all of his students sounded very good.

Were you at Peabody? I know Steve pretty well too as we are neighbors now here in Los Angeles area. He uses a paper or something on his lower teeth. I guess he too has had a problem for years with the lower teeth cutting his gums. Some players use that cigarette paper with great success. Maybe 2 sheets of that paper and you fold it a few times and place it over your lower teeth. These players seem to get great relief. At this stage I surely won't advise you to try a double lip approach, because your embouchure is pretty set. This would be crazy advice.

Since you made it into the DC Marine Band, you are surely well trained. They only take the very best players, often players are able to play in major symphonies. So how bad is your tonguing? Some of the band music surely can be a challenge to articulate. When you auditioned you probably beat out around 100 other players for just 1 spot. Anyway, I'm very glad to see you get interested in the music scene again. Way to go. Please email me offline with what you are doing in your life now, where you live, things like that, if interested of course. We need to get you playing and maybe teaching too. Your talents are being wasted in my opinion.

Designer of - Vintage 1940 Cicero Mouthpieces and the La Vecchia mouthpieces

Yamaha Artist 2015

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