Klarinet Archive - Posting 000022.txt from 2003/04

From: "Bob Head" <headhousehold@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Dentures
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 07:36:20 -0500

I've just joined - I'm in Sydney, Australia - is there anybody else in this
'group' who lives in this .neck of the woods'?
Regards Bob Head
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From: "harold troughton" <haroldjtroughton@-----.com>
Cc: <klarinet@-----.org>
Subject: [kl] Dentures

> Hi Annette.
> Good to hear from a fellow practisioner of "stickability" .
> Playing jazz clarinet has been a compulsive interest of mine since my
teens
> and for many years I tolerated deteriorating lower front teeth, putting
off
> the "Dreadful day when I woud lose them.
> The moment of truth came when a minor accident parted me from my precious
> gnashers
> After a while with persistenc I managed to rebuild my embuchureat least
the
> denture provided a more solid support than hitherto.
> With regard to your "Puffing cheeks problem I suggest that before putting
> the clt in your mouth you form an exaggerated smiling face.
> Smile- then intensify the facial shape tightening the facial muscles. thus
> supporting your embuchure. Mind you -puffing cheeks never bothered Dizzy
> Gillespi. It,s the sound that matters in the last analysis. Harold
> Troughton. Blue Magnolia jazz Orchestra liverpool
>
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