Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2010-04-10 18:42
Nitai wrote:
>> I realized I was actually using a combination. I form the basic embochure more like pliers i.e. while inserting the mouthpiece to my mouth. If I set the embochure opening before the mouthpiece is in my mouth, or if it's only slightly in, I get an uncomfortable emobochure.
>> Then the "pliers" imediately change to a "wrench" to form the final embochure to allow small adjustments.>>
Yes, very well put. And interestingly, that 'change to a wrench' is produced by the use of opposing jaw-muscles. (It's analogous to locking your arm with your elbow at a given angle by the use of the opposing biceps and triceps.)
I think what's good about this pliers/wrench distinction is that it captures the situation intuitively without telling lies about the forces, which of course are THERE, even if physics-challenged people can't see that they are. Plus, it gives one confidence to resist what I "get emotional about", as someone put it: namely, this continuing recommendation of double lip agony for someone-who-quite-possibly-physically-can't-do-it (YES, THAT'S ME I'M TALKING ABOUT -- plus quite a few others) whilst still keeping what is good about the technique.
By the way, another effect of double lip is of course to open the jaws slightly more for a given amount of mouthpiece insertion. And you can mimic that, single lip, by using a thicker mouthpiece patch. It's actually quite a significant effect.
Tony
Post Edited (2010-04-10 20:59)
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