Author: Fuzzy
Date: 2019-12-23 08:50
Seabreeze (as usual) provided the best info...he also touched on the topic of photos.
I've seen a few rare photos of Leon Roppolo (shared with a potential biographer by Roppolo's family) where Leon has the reed on the mouthpiece, and has the mouthpiece on - rotated 180 degrees away from his body (meaning, the reed is facing the upper lip/teeth instead of the lower.) This occurs in not one, but at least two photos taken by different photographers at different times. Curious. Likewise (as I posted years ago on this bboard) I own a vintage fingering chart for the "regular clarinet" with 13 keys, or the deluxe version with 14 keys...in the drawings, the photos show the reed facing 180 degrees away from the player's body (reed towards upper lip/teeth instead of lower lip/teeth.
As a result, I've tried playing that way, and find it surprisingly easy to adapt to. I'd have to work my stamina up a bit as long tones begin to fatigue that embouchure within a few slow tunes. I doubt I'd ever change to that embouchure, but is an interesting test/study at any rate.
Fuzzy
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