Klarinet Archive - Posting 000762.txt from 2001/01

From: "Ian Black" <clarinet1@-----.uk>
Subj: [kl] Hissing air.
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 16:29:24 -0500

Help!

Having stopped playing clarinet when I left school, and just picked it up
again in the last year or so, I'm still a little out of practice, and the
embouchure is not what it was. But this evening, I noticed an involuntary
hissing of air out of the right of my mouth, in between mouthpiece and lip.
My sound starts off nice and clean, but after a few seconds this air leak
starts, and I can't do anything to stop it. It seems/feels like a classic
case of embouchure fatigue. I'd be the first to admit that my embouchure is
not as strong as it could be, and I'm certainly working on it, but I do not
remember any time in the last 2-3 months when I had such trouble with air
leaking.

So, the only thing I can think of which would affect my embouchure control
which has changed in the past couple of weeks is the dental work I had
completed yesterday morning. I had two crowns fitted on the upper right of
my mouth (not the front tooth, but the next 2 along). Has anyone else
experienced such trouble after dental work? Could it be something to do with
the anaesthetic (even though it's 36hours since the treatment)? Could it be
that my mouth is not quite used to the shape of the two new "teeth"? Since
these crowns have a more defined gap between them than the real teeth which
they replace I even thought that air was escaping through the gap and
forcing its way out. But I plugged the gap with cigarette paper and it made
no difference.

Thanks in advance

Ian

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