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 Re: Embouchure Fatigue
Author: Dan Shusta 
Date:   2020-01-28 00:03

59 years ago when I was taught the smile technique, the importance of the absolutely flat lower lip was stressed. Now, as I read about forming a whistle embouchure, there's no way I can maintain a smooth, flat lower lip. Is the flat lower lip approach no longer in vogue?

This round, whistle approach, to me, is beginning to sound almost like a sax embouchure.

Yes, I always had air leakage from my right side and I couldn't understand how to keep the lower lip stretched flat and yet push inward to stop the air leakage. It just seemed counterintuitive to me.

IMO, the best instructive embouchure approach I've read on this BB is to simply fold the lower lip slightly over the lower teeth. Then the side pressure to stop any leakage is quite easy to do.

To me, the fold over approach would maintain a flat landing surface for the reed whereas, I believe, the whistle approach would not. Or, again, is it really not necessary for a flat lower lip anymore?

I'm getting a customized "E" Zinner from Nathan Beaty in the mail today and after not playing for at least the last 25 years, I want to use the correct embouchure approach. (Its specs are 1.10/38).

My thanks for any instructional comments.

p.s. My closest teacher is about 55 miles from me.



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