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Author: Richie
Date: 2017-06-29 04:32
So while working on my air support, I noticed some air pressure building up around the top half of my embouchure, outside the top teeth (it's not causing to puff or anything). Kind of a confusing explanation but if you know where I'm talking about, is that normal? I've never really felt the air there before.
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Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2017-06-29 07:58
A pocket of air forms from air pressure between the front teeth and top gums, but it doesn't cause the top gums to protrude?????
A proper embouchure has the top gums pretty much up against the outside of the front top teeth.
Something sounds off here. I think you're going to need someone at your venue to take a look.
Post Edited (2017-06-29 08:00)
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Author: zhangray4
Date: 2017-07-06 22:32
Your description does indeed sound odd. A standard embouchure should have the upper lip very close to the upper teeth so that little air is present between the two. Some people like me even use a double lip embouchure so that the upper lip curls over the upper teeth, so there is no air space between upper teeth and upper lip.
-- Ray Zhang
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Author: kdk
Date: 2017-07-06 23:05
I'm not sure if I'm simulating what you're talking about or not. I play double lip, but I don't think in theory that should make a difference.
I can, by putting my thumb in my mouth and forming an embouchure around it (or just closing my lips firmly together), blow with my nose closed off, as though I I blowing into a clarinet with the reed pinched closed.
I can do this without air escaping into the area behind my upper teeth. It just puts a lot of pressure on my ears. But I can voluntarily let air in behind my teeth. If it's only a little, it doesn't cause any visible outward bulge in my upper lip. I'm not certain what I'm doing to let the air get in, but I think I'm slightly slacking a muscle on each side of my upper lip. I that's what you're doing, but unconsciously, you're going to have to find the two muscle areas by experimenting and once you find them, practice consciously holding them in. This may be the result of pulling your lips back toward the corners, as in a "smile" embouchure, but I'm just not sure.
Anyway, it may give you something to work with.
Karl
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