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Re: German embouchure

Author: seabreeze
Date: 2022-03-06 17:59

This sounds like something Walter M. Eby would advocate in his 18-page booklet "The Clarinet Embouchure," (pub. 1927)and his three-volume clarinet method. He provided a drawing and photo as I recall of that "German" embouchure. Eby wrote '"scientific" method books for several band instruments and liked to collect examples of odd practices such as "lip trill king" cornetists playing a full octave or more above the normal range of the instrument. Eby's impressions of clarinet embouchure--to be taken with an grain of salt--were probably gathered from random encounters with European players who emigrated to the USA to play with the Gilmore and Sousa bands and join American orchestras. I don't know which instruments Eby himself played or how accurate any of his "scientific" observations may have been. He was, however, most enthusiastic for the "German" way of playing with the long lay and strong outer lip embouchure that he maintained would give the clarinet organ pipe power and presence.

As far as I know, the well-known German system players in the USA such as Robert Lindeman (Chicago Symphony), Simeon Bellison (New York Phil), Victor Polatschek (Boston Symphony), and Michele Zukofsky (Los Angeles Phil) did not play with that kind of embouchure.

Post Edited (2022-03-06 21:32)

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