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iQoro exercise device

Author: SunnyDaze
Date: 2023-05-25 15:19

Hi,

I wondered if it would be okay to show you all this weird embouchure-strengthening exercise device that I've been given?

https://www.iqoro.com/what-is-iqoro/

It's effectively a plastic plate that goes between my lips and my front teeth and then I've to try to pull it out of my mouth while using my embouchure muscles to make sure that it stays in.

I was given it to fix a post-covid digestive problem, but it really really feels to me like a top-notch piece of gym equipment for the embouchure.

One of the things that it does is to train the tongue to sit high at the back of the mouth, just as people always talk about on this forum. Apparently it engages 48 muscles in the face and tongue and other places *back there*.

I wondered if it would of interest to other folks on here?

I have no idea whether it fixes the digestion problem, as I've only had it for two days, but it's sure as heck working on my clarinet playing.

I know because the muscles that it makes me engage, are sore and stiff from the exercise. Then when I play my clarinet afterwards I can feel those same sore, stiff muscles engaging when I play.

I have only to use it for 30 seconds, three times a day, so it's not a big time commitment.

Jen

Adult learner, Grade 3
Equipment: Yamaha Custom CX Bb, Fobes 10K CF mp,
Legere Soprano Sax American Cut #2, Vandoren Optimum German Lig.

Post Edited (2023-05-25 15:20)

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