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 Re: How much air to put through the horn?
Author: Paul Aviles 
Date:   2021-02-24 19:02

The answer to the original post is ZERO. The air is already there. See the referenced video regarding playing a trumpet with no air.



What I am saying is that the other things do play a part. Certainly a lot of the imagery that we use in lessons for students are valid as far as they are helpful. But if you (and I mean YOU) try sitting there without a clarinet and purse your lips, you can approximate the amount of air you put into a horn at a given dynamic. NOW, do that without pursing your lips.........open mouth. There should be VERY little air movement......and yet if you use that same amount of effort into a clarinet you get a really nice sound (if you normally get a really nice sound). More puzzling yet is that student blow into their horns with similar "force" (or lack thereof) and get a flaccid, paper thins sound.


So what's the difference?



I also refer back to what Karl said........"Do you remember that far back?" I would submit that the better we are the less we can relate to those nascent moments. That would explain all the gobbldygook that great teachers used to get at the crux of it: Fast air; Cold Air; Air Support; blow to the back of the hall etc.



All I ask is that anyone really interested in this discussion try for themselves what I described and see if that makes any sense.



I said some time ago that I like this forum because we get a lot of different suggestions, or ways of saying the same thing. But I think the other part of it is that we get some pretty good instantaneous peer review.





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