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Re: Altissimo Embouchure

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2010-11-28 23:48

Make sure you're pulling both lips firmly around the mouthpiece and back over your teeth and that you're applying enough support with your right thumb so the mouthpiece isn't subtly (or not so subtly) slipping downward away from you. Tom Ridenour refers to this, I think, as "snugging in" and it becomes more critical the higher you go. Without firm contact between both lips and the teeth they cover (and between the mouthpiece/reed and the lips) response and focus can suffer and it's easy to imagine trying to compensate with more jaw tension.

Karl

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