Author: vboboe
Date: 2007-10-01 22:11
[:-{ omigosh, jhoyla, after age 50-55 that exercise is much too easy, gravity's already done all the work pulling down the mouth corners !
instead i like to work-out the upper lip and cheek 'smile' muscles, in the forlorn hope i'll eventually succeed at playing with mouth corners almost level and perhaps even look relatively pleasant, heh heh {:-]
bonus, this limits jaw drop to a more comfortable stretch instead of over-stretch, i find slinging the jaw side to side helps relieve dropped jaw strain
as oldtimer said, reed exercises by themselves are easy enough, but a totally different thing when 'weighed down' in the oboe
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