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Re: How to Play a nice piano and tapering?

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2014-10-24 04:35

Well I'll have to give this some thought since I am new to this concept of the jaw jutting forward. I don't see it as a natural consequence of flattening the chin. Could this be a more common methodology for someone with an overbite?

Let's take a step back though.

My answer to "What is is the purpose of the embouchure?" is that it is a platform which is relatively stable, meant to allow the reed to vibrate and the air to flow unimpeded. I also like to use the double lip embouchure as an acid test for what I do as a single lip player. Though I realize that I personally use too much energy, it is more relative to how much air I press forward and the particularly loud top end dynamic that I embrace (occasionally....ahem).

Brad Behn is one who is in the 'low stress' camp. The reed/mouthpiece opening is already at the point where you play, therefore there need be NO undue stress, pressing, biting or pushing involved at all. The same is should be true of any full time double lip player (Harold Wright, John Yeh to name a few).

So as I try to take a step back to contemplate what you say, I only wish to be clear that I have never advocated a willful (or conscious) application of force upon a reed. In addition it seems on the surface that forward movement of the jaw might be begging for Temporal Mandibular Joint problems over the long haul.

maybe

..............Paul Aviles

Post Edited (2014-10-24 05:16)

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