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 Re: A high tongue position still doesn’t focus the sound for me
Author: Simon Aldrich 
Date:   2021-12-26 08:21

Paul - With the palm of your hand an inch from your mouth, exhale onto your hand with a low tongue. One hears the sound "Haaaa". The air exits the mouth slowly, as though one is fogging up a mirror.
With your hand the same distance from your mouth, exhale again, this time with your tongue almost as high as you can place it in your mouth (eg. your tongue should touch your upper back teeth). One will hear the sound "Heee" and notice that the air is coming out of the mouth much more quickly *with no increase of effort, diaphragm pressure, etc*.
By raising the position of the tongue in the mouth, air pressure increases (if you accept the OED's definition of pressure).
With students who have a problem focusing their sound, raising the tongue never fails to make an initial improvement. With a higher tongue, air exits the mouth more quickly than with a lower tongue. The result is that the reed vibrates more quickly.

Simon



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