Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2021-05-18 21:40
smill01 wrote:
> Anyone have any thoughts on any disadvantages of using the
> thicker section of the lip?
As with so many other clarinet questions about "how to" or "how should I," I think this answer depends on the player's unique mouth/lip anatomy.
When I was a student, Gigliotti, who introduced me to double lip, told me to take about the same amounts of lower and upper lip over my teeth. A couple of years earlier, while I was playing in the Army Field Band and before I had made the switch, I took a lesson at Catholic U with Harold Wright, who told me that only a "thin membrane" of the upper lip should be taken over the top teeth. Wright, of course, played full time as a DL player. Gigliotti's experience was, AFAIK, limited to checking that the upper lip of his single lip embouchure mimicked the muscular actions of true double lip.
The point is that, if it sounds good and allows you to maintain control over dynamics and response, it isn't really important whether you take X or Y amount of lip over your top teeth. Find your best, most comfortable spot (judged by both comfort and musical result) and practice with it to get used to it.
Karl
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