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Re: Another try

Author: lydian
Date: 2023-06-17 21:40

My very uneducated guess is double lip was pretty much a requirement back in the day if you didn't want to ruin your wooden mouthpiece. The advent of harder materials made it possible to put one's teeth directly on the mouthpiece.

Remember that saxophone players faced the same dilemma back in the day. Similarly, nearly all played single lip from the early 20th century on.

Aside from the practical considerations (not chewing through your mouthpiece), single lip is simply easier and less painful, especially on the high end where considerable bite pressure is unavoidable (on both sax and clarinet).

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