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Author: Lindsay
Date: 2001-02-23 02:40
I tend to leak air out of the corners of my mouth sometimes. At times it's on purpose, but others I catch myself doing it by accident. Is this bad? If I stop it will my tone improve? Anything you can tell Thanks!
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Author: Robert Small
Date: 2001-02-23 05:03
Letting air escape through the corners of your mouth is a bad habit. That air should be going into your horn.
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2001-02-23 12:00
Close the sides of your lips in like a rubber band. I know an outstanding player who could never get recording work. Nobody could quite bring themselves to tell him that it was because he made such a hissing noise from air leaks. Nobody wanted that on a recording.
If it is a habit, the solution is simple - stop doing it! if it is because of weak musscles the only way they will get stronger is by exercising them - by simply doing it!
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Author: Mark Pinner
Date: 2001-02-25 06:47
Make sure you are not using a double lip embouchure. In other words make sure your teeth are on the mouthpiece and do as Gordon says. Stop doing it even deliberately.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2001-02-25 22:47
Mark Pinner wrote:
> Make sure you are not using a double lip embouchure.
Huh???? Some of the <b>best</b> players of all time used double lip and didn't have a problem with air leaks. Why do you recommend against the double lip embouchure???
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2001-02-26 01:32
Perhaps he was merely correcting my oversight in not mentioning that my instruction pertained only to single lip.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2001-02-26 01:48
No, Gordon, your instructions ("like a rubber band") are also applicable to double lip.
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Author: I agree w/ MC
Date: 2001-02-26 19:35
To all those fools that believe double lip is phony. *&(&&^ double lip was used by the all time great, harold wright. Not to mention Tom Martin, or Ralph Mclane. Unless YOU are more reputable then them, i suggest you keep those phony comments to yourself! double lip acutally is the pure form of an embouchure. People base their single lip embouchures on double lip. For example, Ronald Da Kent had told me in a lesson to tuck my lip in while single lipping (almost as if double lipping), he said that Robert Marcellus had done this sometimes too.
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2001-02-27 11:54
You're right, of course, Mark. I just got my post of this thread mixed up with that in another.
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