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Re: Double lip question

Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2021-05-23 14:21

DL or SL:

‘Biting’ occurs when you use your upper teeth and lower teeth, via your jaw muscles, to exert pressure on the reed and mouthpiece. This is how a pair of pliers works. It limits the rôle of the lower lip muscle, reducing it to an inert covering of the lower teeth.

But if you use your upper and lower teeth like a wrench (which resists both being opened and being closed), then instead you create a fixed support, and allow your lower lip the freedom to act on the reed to modulate the sound of the clarinet.

Tony

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