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 Re: Have not played in 40 years!
Author: Dibbs 
Date:   2014-12-15 15:04

I have very similar story too but I started playing again in my mid thirties so not as long a break as you. Like TomS, I've had had odd years off since then for similar reasons (I'm 58 now).

I suspect it will come back to you quicker than you might imagine. It isn't all that hard to get your embouchure back. I think it's more important to know how to hold your mouth than to build muscles so that will probably come back to you once you get started.

The biggest difficulty I remember was to do with intonation. Having only played the piano in the intervening years (and never sung), I seemed to have lost the ability to tell sharp from flat! I'd hear a note was out of tune and try sharpening it and if that made it worse try flattening. Now I usually go the right way without thinking about it.

Good luck.
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