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RE: Tounging

Author: HIROSHI
Date: 1999-08-23 18:16

Right understanding first,exercize is the second step.
I think misunderstanding of toungue position comes from considering the toungue as one thing. No. Tongue is a big physical organ. Recently,I obtained a booklet by Charles Neidich and his ex-student Ohashi(published only in Japan) and I learned very clearly what caused my clumsy tonguing. He writes:
1)Where tongueing occur: Tip of the toung should touch the reed at about 10 mm from the reed tip. Do not touch the reed at the place close to the tip, since it will make the reed deform and need time to come to natural form and jeopadize smooth tounguing.
2)Tougue is a big organ. Although its tip should touch tha same position of the reed, its big part's(like a trunk of the tree) position moves by tone range. The higher the tones, the higher and forward inside our mouth this part of toungue position.

p.s. I did not necessarily trust my teacher always in my youth.They often impose us how to do but not why. Sometimes it is what he was taught by his own teacher.

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