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Re: Embouchure Instability

Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2014-09-27 07:49

Though it appears you've pretty much solved your problem, Max, you – or anyone else – might find it worthwhile to read the following 'descriptive' (not prescriptive) post about what an embouchure DOES:

http://test.woodwind.org/Databases/lookup.php/Klarinet/2002/04/000770.txt

Given people's very different physical makeups, trying to copy what someone else 'looks like' has always seemed to me to be a strange way to go about it.

Rather, get a clear idea of what doing the job involves – and here, the crucial and in my view understressed idea is that of real-time FLEXIBILITY – and then experiment with doing it until you feel and sound comfortable. This takes time, of course, because variation in reed and mouthpiece suitability confuses the issue.

It's perhaps worth saying (amongst adults) that the oft-touted notion that 'the embouchure should not move' is simply a first-order approximation that allows second-order flexibility its elbow-room.

Tony

Post Edited (2014-09-27 08:36)

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