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Re: Air Noise

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2019-06-30 15:50

There is a good chance that you need to use a much softer reed for two reasons. The first may be that you are just working too hard and in that effort you cannot keep from pushing air out of the "corners" of your mouth. The other is that the airy sound is the sound of the air you are pushing into the mouthpiece while the reed refuses to vibrate enough.

You need to start off easy with a #2 strength (or 2 1/2 at most) reed. It also helps to have a decent mouthpiece with a only a moderate open facing. For that I highly recommend the Clark Fobes Debut mouthpiece. This mouthpiece is just about as good as any mouthpiece out there regardless of price, and yet it's only $40 US dollars!

And it cannot be overstated that having someone help you develop formative technique is a must because it takes much longer to unlearn things that you do wrong for any length of time.

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

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