Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2018-07-15 03:37
Tony, I'm only now trying to rationalize your description of the basic process with the sensations I feel in forming an embouchure. I haven't given it very much time.
You leave out, I think deliberately, any idea of an oppositional muscle for the lower lip muscle to press the mouthpiece against or toward. Are you saying that the lower lip presses against the reed independent of anything else? I suppose the upper teeth hold the mouthpiece in place whether or not the upper lip sits between in a double-lip embouchure. But I'm having trouble actually producing anything I think feels useful without any flexion in the corners of my upper lip. Maybe I'm just too used to pulling my lips toward each other.
"So, the embouchure involves the contact between the muscles of the lower lip and the vibrating reed. "
So, then, is this contact between the muscles of the lower lip and the vibrating reed only one, but not the only, function of the overall embouchure? Doesn't the embouchure also provide the closure needed to direct air into the mouthpiece past the reed? Doesn't this function need some action from the upper lip muscles?
Karl
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