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Re: Double lip

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2020-11-22 18:01

andy63 wrote:

> Hello
> I found this link to an article on this subsect.
> Regards /Andy
>
> https://www.dansr.com/vandoren/resources/the-vanishing-double-lip-clarinet-embouchure
>

Interestingly, he doesn't tell us directly whether the clarinetists polled for Gold's book were all American or not. I suppose we could assume, since the book's title is Clarinet Teaching and Performing Practices in the United States and Canada that he was polling North American clarinetists. I wonder what a poll, either in 1973 (when Gold's book was published) or now, of an international selection of players would have shown (or would show).

I would only quibble with Estrin's conclusion that "double lip is more difficult for younger players to learn and achieve, as it initially has less embouchure stability and requires greater muscle control of the upper lip." I currently have two students who as beginners started out with (and still use) double lip and it doesn't seem to have occurred to either that the embouchure was difficult to achieve. They did need some help refining it, but that's true of students who learn to play single lip as well. It's true they didn't know there was an alternative when they started, so it wasn't a choice, but they have since become aware of the single lip approach and, now having the choice, still prefer DL.

This isn't to demonstrate anything about which is "better." But DL isn't, apparently (I can't say from experience because I became a "switcher" in my 20s), a real obstacle for young players who start out that way.

Karl

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