Author: Dutchy
Date: 2005-05-31 22:57
Actually, now that I've been doing it for longer, "the upper side of the tip of the tongue to the underside of the tip of the reed" makes more sense than anything, and seems to work the best. If you just stopper the tip of the reed with your tongue, poke your tongue right in the reed's opening, you get a pulling-the-cork-out-of-the-bottle "thwoot" sound, which is probably not desirable (she said with heavy irony). Touching the underside of the reed gives you a smoother transition between notes.
Also, just stopping the airflow doesn't give you enough of a definite transition between notes. Even when I played recorder, it was understood that you tongue "too" in order to mark notes, not simply "stop breathing" and "start breathing", because then you get into a "hoo" pattern, which sounds weird.
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