Author: SunnyDaze
Date: 2023-05-28 16:19
Hi Paul,
That's hilarious what your wife said. As far as I can see she is right and it is basically a pacifier, but much bigger, and you put the plastic guard right in.
It does have a very strange effect on the muscles though. The instruction say that I should tighten the obicularis oris muscle to a smile, rather than like a tight "O", and if I do that, then it works the muscles right back to my ears.
I definitely feel the muscles of my tongue being worked too, not while I'm doing the exercise, but afterwards, when it is all a bit sore. It's weird how I can make the muscle sore by using it for 30 seconds. That really surprises me. It's my cheeks, tongue and throat, right down to my voicebox, that are sore, so that must be where the muscles engage.
I tried to think of some cheap household object like a spoon, that would do the same job, but I'm not sure there is one, because the plastic guard is really quite big and goes right sound the side of both cheeks. I suppose the nearest thing might be a mouth guard for boxing or something, but I'm not sure how those work.
I'm not sure about the sleep apnoea / soft pallete thing tbh. Although the device makes my muscles hurt, so that I know it is doing something, I'm not yet sure what it is that it is doing.
I will report back if it seems to help with the clarinet playing. My great hope is that I might make it to a #2 reed and then it would be clear evidence of progress.
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