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Re: single tonguing

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2015-11-21 17:36

Paul Aviles wrote:

> I disagree over the idea of control. The smallest surface
> area that has contact with the reed would naturally allow MORE
> control......that would be the tip.
>
>
Bob didn't say using the flat part of the tongue is necessary - only that some players gain speed that way. I'll throw in yet a perhaps more generalized point of view.

I don't have a fast tongue, so I won't try to describe a way to develop one. But it has always seemed to me that the important thing isn't so much where on your tongue you contact the reed as what position your tongue is in, whether or not its position allows it maximal freedom of movement. Everyone's tongue, like every other part of the human side of the system, is different. If you need to tense up your tongue in order to aim it so the tip touches the tip of the reed, it seems to me potentially self-defeating.

That said, I think the quality of a player's staccato may well be affected by what part of the tongue touches the reed, and tip-to-tip may well, I think, have an advantage in terms of precision and clarity at speeds that are more reasonable. So it may be a matter for some players of slightly different approaches, one if speed is the main consideration and another for all-around general use.

Karl

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