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Re: Omniguard

Author: SecondTry
Date: 2021-09-10 03:45

Paul Globus wrote:

> Why are you switching to double lip? It's not appropriate for
> everyone. If you can play the instrument sans lip pain
> employing single lip, why not stay with single lip? You'd be in
> very good company.
>

Hi Paul:

I am attempting to become more proficient in double lip embouchure, ideally with the hopes of switching to it someday fulltime because I feel myself at the edge of the quality of sound I can produce with single lip--not that I'm unhappy with my sound--and feel that there is just some extra "uwee" (I think that may be an Opperman term

) that I get in my sound with the more open oral palette I get from this embouchure.

I've heard that it no way precludes reverting back to single lip if such endeavors prove a failure.

Some of my favorite sounding clarinet players play that way---not that I will ever be them, including Wright and Guffredi, but then again Manasse, whose sound I also love, is a single lip player. The first recording I ever heard, many years ago, was of Cahuzac and I've always wanted to sound more like him.

I also think there's benefits from playing double lip that can transfer back to single lip from training the player to not bite or press keys to hard, and do their best to mimic in sound, in their single lip embouchures, that the like and learned performing in double lip.

Post Edited (2021-09-10 03:49)

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