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Re: Another try

Author: lydian
Date: 2023-06-17 22:58

The bite pressure comment was mine. As a big band musician for nearly 50 years, I consider myself fairly accomplished on sax and less so on clarinet, and extreme altissimo has always required more bite pressure than the low end of the horn. If you can manage it with voicing alone, kudos to you. But it's not my reality. Maybe I need some lessons to learn to play altissimo with a loose embouchure. But at my age, it will be very difficult to change. Regardless, using double lip up there would be quite painful for me, at least if I wanted to play in tune, no matter how much I practiced. I could easily play flat with double lip, however, which is what I hear my double lip playing peers do most of the time.

I agree the historical evidence for everybody starting on double lip way back when, then switching to single is lacking. Do we have instructional materials or accounts of double lip from hundreds of years ago? I have a saxophone method book that's over a hundred years old that teaches single lip.

Post Edited (2023-06-17 22:59)

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