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RE: Anchor Tounging

Author: Merry
Date: 1999-08-30 00:47

I accidentally taught myself to anchor tongue when I began playing the clarinet mainly because if I used the tip of my tongue this reed ended up hissing due to too much spit. I wished I had have persisted early on because when I later decided to unlearn this technique it has required a lot of work and indeed I am still working after a year. I was never happy with my tonguing when I anchor-tongued it was slow and my staccato was terrible. I still have problems with speed tonguing but it has improved markedly. If you can tongue tip-to-tip then there is no way in the world you could convince me that anchor-tonguing is better.

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