Author: seabreeze
Date: 2015-09-22 01:00
Peter Tanseki has a demonstration video on YouTube of "Cat Tonguing," a technique he attributes to Illian Iliev. Search for Cat Tongue Method of Double and Triple Tonguing on Clarinet to see the video.
Is this really a new and different technique or just a new name for the standard tu-ku and tu-tu-ku or tu-ku-tu multi-tongue articulation? To my ears, Tanseki's multiple tonguing is more even and less tonally distorting than such articulation usually sounds on clarinet. Is that because it is actually an improved approach or is he just better at this sort of thing than most clarinetists?
If this is actually a better way to articulate fast, exactly what is he doing that is not usually done in double and triple tonguing to make it better? Metaphorically speaking, how does a "cat" tongue, as opposed to, say, a lizard, a fork-tongued snake, or a single-tongued human?
On another note, Tanseki's altissimo register tones sound like the fine harmonics they should be, balanced in timbre and dynamics, rather than the uncontrolled, poorly-voiced screeches we often hear up there.
Post Edited (2015-09-22 04:58)
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