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 Re: Facial-Flex for toning Orbicularis oris muscle
Author: Paul Aviles 
Date:   2022-05-24 00:41

I kinda wanted to make more of a point about the musculature of the embouchure even though I was trying to avoid it.


So I believe the the most crucial muscles involved are actually in our cheeks, the buccinators. To make my point, just two words:


Dizzy Gillespie


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GuujVb_ex0


He is using about the same amount of air pressure we use from mezzo forte on up, but he is not using his buccinators at all. These muscles would reign in the air pressure against one's cheeks. They are also involved when we try and suck a thick chocolate shake through a straw. I am convinced these muscles are far more critical to the embouchure than lip muscle and probably why I didn't care for Michael Lowenstern's exercise.


Alto saxophonist James Moody also seems to be a little shy using those muscles as well!





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