Reinhardt on anchor tonguing

Jerry Freedman · Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 11:38 am Post subject: Reinhardt on anchor tonguing

There is a longish thread now up in Fundamentals about anchor tonguing ( I do it myself except when multiple tonguing). I have the encyclopedia but I don't remember seeing anything about it there. What was Reinhardt's position on anchor tonguing?

Doug Elliott · Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 11:58 am Post subject:

He said if it works for you, do it. That was one of the things he had me try, but I couldn't really do it.

razeontherock · Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2015 11:45 am Post subject:

All the different tongue types is probably the one thing in the Encyclopedia that was the least clear to me upon my first read. Then again, that was at a time when the mechanics of my articulation was under revision. Studying under Dave Sheetz really made sense out of what I need to do! I never went back and tried to tease out all the various possibilities ...

Jerry Freedman · Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2015 11:56 am Post subject:

So, in the encyclopedia I didn't find anchor tonguing. Maybe I read it wrong but what type is it?

Doug Elliott · Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2015 12:35 pm Post subject:

Doc did not put it in his book because it was taught by Clarke before him, and he didn't want to take any credit - there was plenty in there of his own original ideas. In teaching, he called it "Clarke tonguing" and considered it to be a form of the Type 5 tongue because the standard Type 5 involved exactly the same anchored tip position in the gully, but only when holding a note. "Clarke" or "anchor" tonguing leaves the tip there all the time.

razeontherock · Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2015 2:22 pm Post subject:

Am I right in thinking that "full type V" or something similar referred to Clarke tonguing?

Doug Elliott · Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2015 4:08 pm Post subject:

I think he called it "The complete usage of the Type V tongue"

The term "anchor tongue" was not in use at that time,