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Re: Physics vs Desire

To: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Physics vs Desire
From: D4VIS@xxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 09:12:30 EDT
Priority: low
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In a message dated 8/4/99 07:51:44 GMT Daylight Time, ns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> 
>  I seem to remember when I was a nipper a grizzled old Soprano player
>  suggesting that one ought to suspend one's cornet from a rafter, make
>  contact with the instrument by using the lips only, then  try producing
>  decent notes with the minimal amount of lip pressure which the laws of
>  physics will allow.  This was supposed to encourage that delicacy of lip
>  pressure necessary to play the upper register consistently without lip
>  destruction.
>  
>  Was he having me on??

no i have heard that rodger webster can do this  (maybe just myth i dont know)

John Davis


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