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Re: Lower Lip, upper Lip

Author: vboboe
Date: 2006-10-03 07:47

i was rolling in both lips over teeth like i'd been taught decades ago, but nowadays i was being told i take in too much reed and can't you play that louder, so this summer i experimented with lips blowing outwards rather than rolled inwards, tip of reed in front of teeth rather than between them, and wow, can actually play forte now, fantastic, too much lip rolled over teeth inside mouth was muffling air flow for me

both lips are about average and equal in size, not particularly thin or thick, although i think they're thinner than they were in my youth, because i don't recall having trouble playing louder back then

with pre-summer style, i was using mostly upper lip & bite to control the sound, now i'm finding both lips are more mobile and doing that together, think it's an embouchure growth & development thing for me here, and it's different from what i was trying to do, like example below

watched a concert of opera selections the other night where the principal oboe was lip-rolled in deep and reed well over half-way in, very steady embouchure, nice sound, so that formation works for him, but after trying to emulate similar style last 2 years, it doesn't work for me, well, not on A-scrape reeds anyway, have to take in more reed on U-scrape

pushing out more lower lip gives me better sound, so i'm thinking more lower lip may be more of an asset? Or are you finding it a liability in some way trying to mold your lips to some required formula, one size doesn't fit all?

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