Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2023-06-17 22:59
Rather than continuing to beat this into the ground in SecondTry's posts, I want to ask the question directly of the BBoard's members who live and play clarinet *outside of the U.S. borders.*
It's clear that most American clarinet beginners in most public and private school settings learn to play single-lip. Apart from any judgment of one's being better than the other (which I don't really want to debate), it seems likely that the American situation stems from two sources. (1) Most American instrumental music programs are band-oriented and largely aimed at producing marching bands for the high school football programs. Marching while playing double-lip, while not impossible, is certainly less comfortable. (2) Many of the teachers throughout the school band programs are not primarily clarinetists (nor are the instructors of the "instrumental methods" courses in which they learn the basics of the instruments that aren't their majors) and are unlikely to have any exposure to double-lip, which takes time to develop. They will, therefore, most likely teach single-lip as working teachers.
But I want to take a very informal survey among our non-American friends here regarding the use of double- and single-lip in other places with, perhaps, different systems of music education. In your areas, which of the two types of embouchure is prevalent? Does it vary in the 21st century by national "schools" of playing, as I suspect it once did? Does one have preference over the other in the major conservatories or university-level performance programs?
It would be great if answers were limited to practices outside the U.S.A. and (if possible) that they exclude judgments. I'm really curious as an American-trained player with no study or playing experience outside American borders, what the global situation is.
TIA, everyone.
Karl
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