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Re: Overcoming Anchor Tonguing

Author: donald
Date: 2016-08-05 12:31

I have a few comments to add, but no time just now... I will take a minute to make one observation...
It has been mentioned that the size of the tongue has an influence on which part of the tongue you can comfortably use to articulate at speed- I certainly agree with this, but there is another factor that comes into play...
The angle that the mouthpiece enters the mouth- if you experiment with changing this angle you will find that if the mouthpiece enters the mouth closer to 90 degrees, then the tip of the mouthpiece is further IN the mouth- altering the tongue position needed to articulate on the tip of the reed.
If the mouthpiece is at a steeper angle, then the tip of the reed is "further away" (closer to the teeth) and articulating on the tip of the reed can be achieved with the tongue in a more natural relaxed position....
I'm in a bit of a rush so could have worded this better, but if you experiment I'm sure you'll appreciate the difference I describe. This factor would have a considerable influence on anchor tonguing vrs tip to tip (it certainly does in my case)/
More later
dn

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