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Re: Embouchure and leaking air

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2007-07-26 11:01

My recommendation is to think of embouchure as a rubberband around the mouthpiece. You need to engage ALL the muscles around the mouthpiece, particularly the cheek muscles (buccinators). The cheek muscles are the ones used when sucking a particularly resistant shake through a straw only this time you are blowing out.

Though a modicum of air leaking is not a hands down cardinal sin, you shouldn't have any if you apply all the muscles AROUND the mouth.

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

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