Author: RKing
Date: 2021-09-24 17:36
Ouch! And here I thought I had it bad with cancer. I had no fever and could breathe, so I am thinking you had it much worse than me and I hope you are doing better now.
When I started playing again, I had to go all the way back to the beginning. I used a B45 mouthpiece, a 1.5 reed, and my beginning Rubank book. I then had to remember my 5th grade music teacher's pointers on embouchure: "The sax uses a "frown", the clarinetist "smiles". It takes a tight lower lip and you have to remember that it takes more muscles to smile than it does to frown.
Then you take it slow and easy. My mouth never "hurt", but I did get tired easily and could only spend 10 - 15 minutes a day to start. But after a few weeks, I was using a #2 reed and could go up and down the scale book okay. I switched back to my regular mouthpiece with a lighter 2.5 reed and have been doing a little better each day. Getting well and going back to music is a very slow process.
BTW - Cancer took 55 pounds off me and it stripped all the nice muscles I had in my arms and upper body. Ugh!
I hope you recover and can stay healthy!
Ron
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