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 Re: How much air to put through the horn?
Author: Paul Aviles 
Date:   2021-02-24 00:43

One thing for sure that I remember was that my "solution" to a better sound within the first year was a really really open mouthpiece and hard reeds. While that CAN make your sound less flaccid, you wind up with more problems down the road such as: no endurance, no decent pianissimo, lip pain, ultimately quitting (if you don't find a better solution).



One thing that made me recall this was the comment above about moving to harder reeds. I don't think the poster meant it in an extreme way but rather as a means to get to a true balance with a given mouthpiece........I'm sure. However, you can (at least I can now) use a VERY hair trigger, light set up (very small tip opening with really soft reed) and achieve the entire spectrum of dynamics and great projection. So you don't need actual resistance within the mouthpiece/reed system to achieve a sonorous sound. This is demonstrated quite nicely by the traditional German use of very long facings, very (less than 1mm) tip openings and 2 1/2 strength reeds. They just put the mouthpiece in their mouth and blow. But what a sound!


Therefore I'm left with "a firm terminus" as the solution.........and a search for a better way to teach that.






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