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Re: Open tip mp, sounds great but I bite. Closed tip, no biting but sounds terrible

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2015-09-03 15:17

Your description of bringing the opening down is on point. This is exactly what Brad Behn said to me, though my distance covered is smaller (I already tend toward a tip that is just over 1mm). So I don't think biting can be solved moving to a smaller opening.

I find describing sound to students helpful here. We have two extremes of sound that we can make at any given time which are, pinched/wheezy/buzzy or flabby/uncentered/diffuse. It is all a matter of the amount of "control" we impose with the embouchure (really try to think of muscles around the mouthpiece rather than your jaw) vs. the amount of air we use at the time (given note in a given register at a given dynamic). Ideally what we do to generate a good solid sound is to remain at the very center of those extremes.......at all times.

The trick is to become comfortable with a reed strength that is compatible with this scenario on your given mouthpiece. You need to "learn" to be more comfortable with a softer reed. Unless you have a massive reserve of #4 reeds, I'd say it would be much cheaper to start using 3 1/2s or even even 3s.

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

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