Author: Jarmo Hyvakko
Date: 2020-03-29 10:55
Anchor tonguing doesn't go as far back in the tongue as "gah". The difference is something between "dee" (tip) and "thee" (anchor). My version of anchor tonguing goes like this: my lower lip is not very much in my mouth, it is on the teeth but just a bit inside mouth, my tip of the tongue touches very lightly the back of the lower lip, it is not under not even to mention it to touch the teeth. I articulate the tongue touching the reed as if i said the or thee, so the touching point is some 1 cm or 2/5 of an inch behind the tip of the tongue. I am articulating slightly below the tip of the reed.
I am able to articulate short passages well above 140 semiquavers, so i don't see the anchor tonguing to be an issue concerning fastness. As a matter of fact, i could imagine tiptotip causing slowness to some people, so stiff i feel my toungue to be, if i bend it to a position to articulate tiptotip!
I think the greatest advantage of anchor tonguing is, that you are better equipped to variate the quality of your attack compared to tip to tip, that to me seems to produce only one kind that sounds like "p". And, in orchestral playing it is nice to be able to produce the whole spectrum from flutists' "pff" to oboists' razorsharp "t".
I apologize the tip-to-tip fundamentalists, that i reveal my heretic secrets of anchor tonguing
Jarmo Hyvakko, Principal Clarinet, Tampere Philharmonic, Finland
Post Edited (2020-03-29 11:07)
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