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Re: I've got the gimmes

Author: eac
Date: 2019-06-03 17:26

We've all wanted a gadget to improve our tone! (Or I suspect most of us have at one time or another.) Try this exercise: Play one of the best notes (ie richest fullest tone) on your present instrument. Then do something to make the sound go bad (flabby, thin, however you want to describe a less desirable tone), maybe let your cheek muscles go loose to get a flabby tone. Return to your first better tone and then do more of whatever you did to make the sound improve. Try this for all sorts of maneuvers, more and firmer air, tighter lower lip muscles, tighter side lip muscles, moving down the reed, etc. Maximize your present sound and it will apply to a new instrument.

Liz Leckey

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