Author: CarlT
Date: 2010-06-12 22:41
I hope I can adequately describe this.
While playing racquetball about a week ago, I cut my upper lip (got hit with my opponent's racquet). Really didn't hurt much...just cut it a bit, and bled only a bit. Well, I didn't think a lot about that, but I noticed the next day that I couldn't quite get the sound back for very long, as my lip hurt when I practiced more than a few minutes.
I have been "babying" it now for a week, and what is starting to scare me is although I feel no pain at all, it appears that the lip has, at least for now, a small indention about an inch out from center...just where I need to make a good seal.
At first I am able to seal okay, but once my embouchure starts to tire, I no longer have the ability to seal, and air starts spurting out that side.
Have any of you experienced similar lip accidents, and if so, please tell me that my lip will likely heal back normally (as I said, there is now a noticeable indention right where I should be sealing the side of the MP).
This comes at a time when I feel like I am making very good progress. I finally got the sound doing well, and now this!!!
I appreciate you.
CarlT
Post Edited (2010-06-12 22:42)
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