Author: SecondTry
Date: 2023-06-10 06:42
Sure, it's going to vary from player to player: that's even if our practice regiment and setup were the same, which of course it's anything but.
I'm a long time single lip player. I have no problem with multi-hour practice sessions with this embouchure.
This isn't to say I wiz thru the Nielsen. Both technical ability and physical exhaustion would catch up with this soon to be 60 year old man quickly--but I guess my point is that it isn't my embouchure that would give out before my breath/wind would.
A couple of months ago I started the process of moving to double lip play. I guess I like the harmonics better with the embouchure even if I'm the only one that hears the difference between my single and double lip play.
Perhaps influenced by a book about Kal Opperman (who, for all he knew about play, held opinions that differed from other great pedagogues and nobody is the last word) and videos by Tom Ridenour (one if his disciples), I've worked up to the point where I usually need no upper teeth protection** before muscle fatigue, not pain, causes me to revert back to single lip in about 1/2 hour pf practice that always starts out with double lip.
I'm sure practice with more upper altissimo notes causes fatigue faster, remembering to push the clarinet into the mouth with the right thumb ever so more for these high notes.
I like what double lip has to offer for either embouchure, in how it forces the player to approach the instrument with a degree of gentleness, from mouth to fingers. I'm just wondering, for those who made the transition, how long it took.
** sometimes I do put some form of a guard between the front of my top front teeth and the inside gums. This guard prevents my superior labial frenulum (that gathering of flesh inside the top center gums) from getting lodged between my top two teeth, which are not distanced apart, when I break double lip embouchure.)
TIA
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